Am Quote by Wole Soyinka

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

— Carrie Mae Weems

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

— Peggy Guggenheim

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

— Leo Tolstoy

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

— Sean Penn

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

“I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic…

— Ruth Ozeki

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us…

— Toni Morrison

“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are making music,…

— César Aira