Quotes About Art

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul, you haven't experienced poetry.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Music is poetry with personality.