Quotes about art
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342aIf I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to T. W. Higginson (1870); Letters (1958) p. 474, no. 342a
Lionel Trilling1905–1975The Liberal Imagination (1950), Freud and LiteratureI’m not sure how much movies should entertain. I’ve always been more interested in movies that scar.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 13A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of Creation.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919), Ch. I: “Madame Swann at Home”A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999Kagan, Norman (1989), The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, New York: Continuum Books.
