Art Quotes

"It is not my fault that the beautiful world is being hidden by paperwork."

"Art is the scream of those who refuse to be silent."

"Art is a mystery"

"The dance is the mother of all languages"

"I would like to paint the way birds sing"

"The intent of the artist is always to suggest and not to present the literal facts."

"The art of poetry is amoral."

"Art is the soul made visible."

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you."

"I could go to the Lunt-Fontanne and just sit in my seat, and the play would just kill me."

"It takes a real touch of genius to play a guy when he's looking at you like you're crazy."

"The poet's job is to use words effectively, no matter the subject matter."

"Everything can be material for the poet who learns to see deeply."

"To be a good observer of life is to be a good maker of art."

"Poet is defined as light and holy and sexuality is holy when it's not mixed with cruelty"

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"

"Poetry means bringing in the intelligence of the heart into the language"

"The poet is the priest of the invisible."

"The artist is the lover of the world."

"Art is the effort of man to express not his relation to nature but his relation to nature's seeming."

"The poet seeks as much to create the world to which he appeals as to express it."

"The real and the imagination are one in the eye of the poet."

"The poet must always sing of the world."

"You can't fake it in the moment of creation."

"Art is the attempt to render the highest justice to the universe."

"There is no separation between art and life."

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads in them."

"A Picasso is worth discussing, but what else matters?"

"Real enough, but just as unreal, is the world of art."

"One's art should be an extension of one's life."