Art Quotes

"The artist's role is to see what others have overlooked."

"When you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly."

"The business of art is to reveal, not to explain."

"The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist."

"Craftsmanship is the enemy of art."

"The creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo."

"The old masters took it seriously they took everything seriously."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"Art is the effort to understand the human experience better and to convey that understanding."

"The figure a poem makes on the page, the way it looks and reads, is part of the poem itself."

"A poem is best when it moves you without you fully understanding why."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo."

"Art preserves what would otherwise be lost."

"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses."

"Art very often pretendes to elevate, when it actually degrades."

"The technique of art is not necessarily the technique of poetry."

"The artist is always ahead of his time or behind it."

"Great art always starts with passion and ends with precision."

"The artist must suffer to create, but not all suffering creates art."

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

"The work of art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Art is the language of liberation."

"Art speaks the language that politics cannot."

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they do the work of God."

"A writer's heart is always breaking."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment."

"Art is the signature of civilizations."