Quotes About Art

Surely music is not only the food of love, but of poetry as well.

Piping a simple song for thinking hearts, is all very well. But it will not do to say, or to suggest, or to allow it to be inferred, that doing this makes a man as great a poet.

Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry of the lowliest kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression. No poet of much account is ever obscure, unless the text happens to be corrupt.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

It is for the best and highest interests of literature that those who love it before all other things, and cherish it beyond all other considerations, should nevertheless take a large and liberal view of what constitutes life.

If this be poetry, then poetry is very easily written, and what has hitherto been supposed to be the highest, the most difficult, and the rarest, of the arts, presents no more difficulty to the person who knows how to write at all than the simplest, baldest, and most unartistic prose.

But no subject is equal to its own support, where the poet is concerned, however it may be with the preacher and the moralist. The poet himself must support it.

But if poetry is now comparatively little read, no one can deny that it is much written about.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Les grands artistes n'ont pas de patrie. Great artists have no country.

Great artists have no country.

Ah! Frappe-toi le coeur, c'est là qu'est le génie".

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.