Art Quote by Thomas Hobbes

No arts, no letters - no society.

— Thomas Hobbes

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst,…

— Samuel Johnson

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

— Anonymous

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

— Louise Bogan

Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages

— Dennis Prager

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent…

— Thomas Merton

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

— Germaine Greer

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our…

— Saul Bellow

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

— John Morley

“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson