Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The poet writes, the musician composes, each in their own way answering the call of nature."William Wordsworth
"Simplicity is the poetry of life; complexity is its prose."William Wordsworth
"The play's the thing"William Shakespeare
"Fashionable"William Shakespeare
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist in all that is beautiful."Lord Byron
"There is a music in the soul that responds to the beauty of the world."Lord Byron
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The poet brings the whole soul of man into activity."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To find the universal in the particular is the task of the poet."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Art is the effort of man to render the account of his sensations."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A poet's soul is the mirror of creation itself."John Milton
"Art is the soul attempting to speak what words cannot express."John Milton
"You might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist."John Keats
"What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon Poet."John Keats
"I should like to devote myself to painting if my constitution permitted."John Keats
"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"William Shakespeare
"The truest poetry is the most feigning"William Shakespeare
"Art is the mirror of society."Lord Byron
"Art is the human labor that creates beauty."Dante Alighieri
"Art is the soul expressing itself in form."Dante Alighieri
"Emotion recollected in tranquility is the essence of poetry."William Wordsworth
"For the metre is difficult allway, sayde the Knight."Geoffrey Chaucer
"The art of living well is the greatest art of all."Geoffrey Chaucer
"To the man who loves art, working is not hard. Every pushback is just an opportunity to grow."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In art the best is good enough."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Art is the intermediate between what is nature and what is human."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Art is the effort of man to express his understanding of beauty."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear."John Milton
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Ovid
"The greatest masterpiece is not a masterpiece of great things, but a harmony of small ones."Ovid