Quotes About Author

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

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

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

If you're in the mood for a blushing art house romance, you'll fall for it, too.

Political art never goes away. I started watching The West Wing show recently and I'm actually learning about how the government works in a way. It's kind of embarrassing.

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.