Famous quotes containing the words test and/or subjects:
“It is the test of a novel writers art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”
—A. Alvarez (b. 1929)