#liter

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

Art is literacy of the heart. ↗

— Elliot Eisner

#heart #inspirational #literacy #art

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts #arts-and-humanities #book #books #culture

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#reading #schopenhauer #art

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. ↗

— George Washington

#literacy #art

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#heresy #heretics #literature #art