Art Quote by V. S. Pritchett

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward…

— Patti Smith

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions…

— Ayn Rand

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You…

— Alan Moore

Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person…

— Tom Verlaine

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters…

— S. S. Van Dine

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in…

— Mary Lee Settle

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to…

— Gus Van Sant

One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste…

— Leo Steinberg

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a…

— Jane Rule

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler

With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective novel of…

— Viv Albertine