#literature

Truth is most beautiful undraped. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#schopenhauer #truth #art

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. ↗

— Aristotle

#literature #philosophy #art

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#american #because #class #classes #created

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul ↗

— Albert Camus

#literature #writing #art

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#artists #especially #great #heart #i

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#basic #became #economics #foreign #gradually

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#literature #living #memory #nation

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#belong #convict #education #forever #got