Quotes about Art
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
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
— William Hazlitt
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Cicero
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
— CS Lewis
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
— Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
— CS Lewis
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
— Henry David Thoreau
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
— John Keats
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
— Aristotle