Quotes About Art

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry is not a profession it's a destiny.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.