Quotes About Art

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.