Quotes On Art and Literature

I feel every object has its own personal structure.

— Andrew Wyeth

From Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1994):

…unless we understand the social context in which words were formed… we cannot begin to appreciate the richness and vitality of the words that make up our speech. (p. xi)

The American was good natured, generous, hospitable and sociable, and he reversed the whole history of language to make the term ‘stranger’ one of welcome. (p. 74)

— Bill Bryson

…in politics you cannot ever afford to find something other than what you’re looking for. And in the arts you constantly find something else… and you give up looking for what you were looking for.

— Lukas Foss

From Visual Thinking (1969):

The Sensualist philosophers have reminded us forcefully that nothing is in the intellect which was not previously in the senses (p. 2)

— Rudolf Arnheim