Quotes About Art

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.