Art Quotes

"A Picasso is a wonderful painting because it is a Picasso."

"This is a photograph as a photograph and not as a thing photographed or as a thing not photographed."

"I kept saying all the time that I liked the acting it had in itself."

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

"I sing the body electric."

"The photograph is poetry's rival and its ally."

"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you know the stuff you're dealing with, the forces that make you move. Then the facts make sense."

"Art is for everybody."

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

"Technique is the evidence of seriousness."

"The waste land of a literary imagination."

"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice."

"The artist's struggle is the struggle for truth."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

"Artists are the antennae of the race."

"A great age is in the hands of the artists."

"Technique is the test of sincerity."

"The artist's true function is to play the instrument of existence."

"Rhythm alone is not genius."

"The supreme reward of poetry is the joy in the absolute conception of the beautiful."

"Technique allows for intensity."

"The artist should not impose meaning but allow it to emerge."

"Poetry is music written for the human voice."

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall find joy."

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

"I have sung of shadows and light, of the ordinary made extraordinary."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest minds."

"The photograph captures a moment; poetry captures the truth within it."

"The city pulses with a rhythm all its own, unwritten and ever-changing."

"A photograph freezes time; a song echoes through eternity."