Art Quotes

"Art is the evidence that life is worth living, suffering is worth enduring."

"The main thing is to get the mood right."

"Anything can be said in a poem."

"Words are sacred things in poetry."

"Art has to be ahead of life."

"The artist must be a voice for the voiceless."

"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."

"Ireland is a land of poets and dreamers."

"Art is the voice of those who have no other words."

"Art bridges the gap between the human and the divine."

"The poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and cannot compose until he becomes inspired."

"To be an artist is to bleed onto the page what most keep locked away."

"The poet sees in the mundane the extraordinary hiding in plain sight."

"Art exists in the space between what is seen and what is imagined."

"Artistic creation is an act of controlled deception."

"In art, technique is merely the servant of vision."

"Art disturbs comfort; comfort contradicts art."

"Art is the language of the soul when words fail us."

"The greatest poetry lives in the spaces between what we say and what we mean."

"Art exists to remind us that we are not alone in our deepest feelings."

"I have discovered that I can say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"In love, we become both the artist and the canvas, creating masterpieces of vulnerability."

"Art is the mirror in which civilization sees not its best self, but its truest one."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, his inner self."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul."

"Art is the language of the soul, speaking what words cannot express."

"I would begin with the simple assertion that what we are engaged in is not a work of genius but a work of craft."

"A poem is an attempt to articulate a private vision in a public way."