Art Quotes

"Art can never be too pure; life can never be too real."

"What every poet starts from is his own emotions."

"Art is the escape from personality."

"Art is our defense against chaos."

"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."

"Hands can speak when mouths cannot."

"The artist must speak from the heart or not at all."

"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics."

"Art very often preaches, and the artist ought to be able to do so."

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance."

"The artist's struggle is the struggle of all men."

"Individual sensibility is something good."

"Art is the effort of man to express his conception of nature."

"All great works of art have a quality that transcends the moment."

"Good art never needs explanation."

"In art, as in life, the hardest things to achieve are simplicity and clarity."

"Picasso once remarked that I was the only one in the twentieth century who understood him."

"Art is the creation of new things, and the making of them new."

"The contemporary thing in art is the thing that makes today today."

"The question of the usefulness of poetry is something one does not think about."

"The artist must speak truth to power, no matter the cost."

"Art is not less moral than nature; it is as moral as it is possible for it to be."

"Art is the mirror of the soul, reflecting truth in a thousand forms."

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Poetry is the art of saying what you mean indirectly."

"I sing the body electric."

"I am a poet of the people."

"An artist must believe he is infallible. Yet in the end he must admit he failed."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."