Quotes about art
621 quotes from 285 people
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
Anatole France1844–1924Le Jardin d’Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
Frank Zappa1940–1993Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
John Milton1608–1674Arcades (1630-1634), line 68
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
Albert Camus1913–1960Absurd Creation
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)
Robert Graves1895–1985Reply to questionnaire, “The Cost of Letters” in Horizon (September 1946)
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949), ¶ 73
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Poets (1818), Lecture I, “On Poetry in General”
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXIWriting free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost1874–1963Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (May 17, 1935)Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822A Defence of Poetry (1821)