Quotes About Art

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

The poetry of country music will survive.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.