Art Quote by Willa Cather

“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.”

— Joan Acocella

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A…

— Henry Miller

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.

— Steve Kazee

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

“The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, where in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination…

— Sherwood Anderson

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri

Art is not in some far-off place.

— Lydia Davis

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art,…

— Warren MacKenzie

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor,…

— Paul Engle