Quotes About Art

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.