Quotes About Literary Arts

#1. Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Terry Eagleton

#2. The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.

Michael Hersch

#3. I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Dan Brown

#4. There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

Will Cuppy

#5. I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

Hassan Blasim

#6. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#7. In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

William Boyd

#8. And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Elvis Stojko

#9. I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

David Macaulay

#10. I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

Maxwell Caulfield

#11. He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.

Marcel Proust

#12. Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

Julie Harris

#13. To be dedicated and devoted is to find the seek

Sunday Adelaja

#14. I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

Daniela Bobadilla

#15. Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Philip Zaleski

#16. I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

Miranda Kerr

#17. Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.

Terry Kay

#18. Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever looked on an actual red carpet.

Diablo Cody

#19. We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.

Tom Bentley

#20. You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Idries Shah

#21. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

Will Self

#22. Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him.

Maggie Stiefvater