Art Quote by Stephen Crane

“We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Lastly, they must be men of honest report, whose life and sound conversation are by their deeds perfectly tried and sufficiently witnessed of unto…

— Henry Bullinger

“You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent…

— Thomas More

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...but I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.…

— J.D. Salinger

“The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not.”

— Bayode Ojo

“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they…

— Laird Barron

“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I…

— Harold Brodkey

“And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“...for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco,…

— Irving Stone

“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