Art Quotes

"Art is a person's gift to his people."

"The word brought down the thunder from the sky."

"The artist must bear witness to the times in which he lives."

"What is poetry but the truth dressed in strange clothes?"

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

"The greatest art is to create beauty from simplicity"

"Art is the creation of something that did not exist before in the world."

"Art is not democracy. It is not for the people; it is by and for artists."

"To be a poet is not merely a profession; it is a way of seeing the world."

"Art endures when political power crumbles to dust."

"True art must make us uncomfortable with the familiar."

"Art is the lie that tells the truth about ourselves."

"Art has two constant, two witnesses: the silence and the beauty."

"The task of art is not to reproduce the visible world but to create another world."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"The artist's duty is to illuminate the human soul."

"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."

"The knack of good writing is to say extraordinary things in an ordinary way."

"In art lies the only path to understanding the human soul."

"The artist speaks for those who cannot speak."

"No, ever and anon I think about how my verses will sound to future generations."

"The voice of a poet speaks across centuries to those willing to listen."

"The muse does not visit the comfortable, but the desperate."

"In writing, I give form to the formless, voice to the voiceless."

"My life is my art, and my art is my life; they cannot be separated."

"The beauty of art is that it outlasts the artist and heals future wounds."

"In love and in art, only the truth, however painful, has any lasting value."

"Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."

"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist."

"There is no general idea which does not cut out a little of the artist's flesh."