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Quotes About Art

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.
~ Brandi L. Bates
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~ Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
~ Thomas Hardy
Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.
~ Debasish Mridha
Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
~ Debasish Mridha
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it breaks walls down.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.
~ Betty Bleen
The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart
~ Michael Biondi
True poetry is embarrassing.
~ Julien Torma
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
~ Anthony S. Maulucci
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too
~ Amanda Linsmeier, Like Waves
Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!
~ Saru Singhal
Poetry is the beauty of life.
~ Debasish Mridha
All that is not prose passes for poetry.
~ George Grabbe
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
~ Patti Smith, M Train
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
~ William Congreve
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
~ Thomas Carlyle