Quotes About Art

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

And cried, 'Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its saying where executivesWould never want to tamper

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

'Healing ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.

Lo único sensato por parte de un crítico es permanecer en silencio frente a las obras que considera francamente malas, mientras defiende vigorosamente las que cree buenas, sobre todo si estas son ignoradas o menospreciadas por el público.