Art Quote by Susan Freinkel

“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my actual life,…

— Marcel Proust

“There was a guy roasting chestnuts on the street corner, and the smell wafted over, hinting at the coming Winter, but in a good…

— Sarah Dunn

“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree… Four dry…

— Pietro Aretino

“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several kilos of…

— Gao Xingjian

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“That night I wrote in my journal: "Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new…

— Donna Tartt

“Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred…

— MacKinlay Kantor

“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known? Any one…

— Edith Wharton

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy