Quotes About Art

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Painting is silent poetry.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.