Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and... →
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as... →
Stephan Pastis
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
Ann Patchett
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less... →
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary... →
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.