Art Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

— Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute…

— Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its…

— Anonymous

“Art is at present the only construction complete unto itself, about which nothing more can be said, it is such richness, vitality, sense, wisdom.…

— Tristan Tzara

“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the…

— Anonymous

“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and…

— Boris Pasternak

“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in…

— Boris Pasternak

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams