Art Quotes

"I want to be a great artist, and that is ambition enough for me."

"I shall create beauty or die in the attempt."

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

"Technique is not a sin; it is how we say what we know."

"Art is the effort to render the matter of existence intelligible."

"A poet's work is to clarify life's confusion through careful observation."

"A poem must contain everything, yet say nothing unnecessary."

"Authority in art comes from truth, not tradition."

"The poem makes nothing happen, yet changes everything."

"To embrace modernity without abandoning tradition is the artist's eternal struggle."

"Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings."

"The object of poetry is not to satisfy the intellect, or to chronicle an event accurately, but to express something."

"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

"The artist's work is to make the invisible visible."

"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."

"Poetry is the supreme fiction because it creates value where none existed before."

"Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance."

"The ordinary made luminous through attention and imagination—this is the work of art."

"Writing is a kind of healing, a way to transform pain into art."

"The artist's task is to bear witness to truth."

"Consciousness expands through art and literature."

"The soul communicates through symbol and metaphor."

"The artist's eye reveals what others overlook."

"The true subject of art is always the human heart."

"Art is the expression of the social life of a people."

"Art ennobles the human spirit."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Art mirrors the complexities of human existence."

"Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form."

"Precision is the essence of poetic expression."