Art Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end.…

— Julia Marlowe

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of…

— Arthur Wesley Dow

“Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue…

— Rafael Sabatini

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

— Herbert Read