Art Quotes

"How many bards gild the lapses of time."

"I find that I cannot exist without poetry."

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."

"Emotion recollected in tranquility is the essence of poetry."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Poetry is the blossom and fragrancy of all human knowledge."

"Mark where the striking and the beautiful meet"

"The world cannot live on without poetry"

"Art and literature are the mirrors of the soul."

"Art is the right hand of Nature."

"Art is the flowering of truth and beauty."

"No one who has ever seen you can doubt that you were meant to be an actress."

"The great charm of poetry is that it makes everything in life relate to beauty."

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

"The poet sees what others merely look at."

"The artist's vision reveals hidden truths."

"Art is the absence of limitation."

"Art is the conversation between the artist and eternity."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public opinion is to avoid it."

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity."

"Architecture is frozen music."

"The task of art is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns."

"The artist is an inventor, not a slave to nature."

"Art is the intermediary between unmanifest and manifest worlds."

"Everything that happened to me is contained in my poems."

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate."

"A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Pole-star of Poetry."

"A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him."

"The heart of the poet is the heart of humanity itself."