Art Quote by Tom Cardamone

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language”

— Anthony Burgess

“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great…

— John Leonard

“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste” from the…

— Gregory Sholette

“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

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to…

— Jonathan Franzen

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“There's truly an art regarding literature in every way...”

— VandBrooks

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

— Eli Broad