Quotes about Art
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
— Margaret Atwood
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
— Aristotle
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
— Edith Schaeffer
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
— John Lennon
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf