Art Quote by Will Eisner

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went…

— Tom Robbins

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

— Ariel Pink

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

I have a weird relationship with putting religion in my art. I'm so far removed from it now, but considering that's really all I…

— Ethel Cain

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

— Denise Levertov

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the…

— Jonathan Lethem

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you…

— Yann Martel

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that…

— John McGahern

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in…

— Salman Rushdie