Quotes About Art

The limbs of a dismembered poet.

As in painting, so in poetry.

A picture is a poem without words.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

Taught or untaught, we all scribble poetry.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Ten fe ciega no en tu capacidad para el triunfo, sino en el ardor con que lo deseas. Ama a tu arte como a tu novia, dándole todo tu corazón.

Maybe all art is such a re-call, a call beyond the grave.

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.

I exaggerate but only to revive the dying art of hyperbole.

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Poetry is a means of seeing invisible things and saying unspeakable things about them.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

Taxidermia. Art forms come in many ways, but nothing conveys a psychopathic outlook more then stuffing your dead pet.

Le long sentier vers l'humanisation de l'humanité est éclairé par trois lumières : le désir de comprendre le monde (la science), de l'embellir (l'art) et d'aider les êtres vivants à vivre (l'empathie). Trois mots à retenir : « connaîtras », « créer », « compatir ».

Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it completely, I transcend all this gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are reaching anyone...