Quotes about Art
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
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh