Art Quote by Sarah Caudwell

“There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative…

— Charles Williams

“To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“You may not make sense out of the incomprehensible, but you can make art.”

— John Dufress

“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete…

— Mark Leyner

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch

“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it…

— Thomas Mann

“Van Houten was still staring at the ceiling beams. He took a drink. The glass was almost empty again. 'Lidewij, I can't do it.…

— John Green The Fault in Our Stars

“It is the fate of all authors to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full…

— Paulette Jiles

“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he…

— Jane Austen

“Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“As this is one of those deep observations which very few readers can be supposed capable of making themselves, I have thought proper to…

— Henry Fielding

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke