Quotes About Art

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a gentle sadness, the kind that comes with soft rain. It's the same for all truly great dark art. There's a pleasure in seeing our shadows paraded beautifully. It's liberating to find them so prettily decked out, a sort of reverse Halloween.

Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The

I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impressionist painting. It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more. It is concerned with the total exclusion of meaninglessness. Life, on the other hand, is meaningless most of the time. The novel imitates life, where the short story is bony, and cannot wander. It is essential art.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

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

Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

I believe in looseness.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.