Quotes about art
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost1874–1963BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in “It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem” in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958)Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost1874–1963Address at Milton Academy, Massachusetts (May 17, 1935)Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Peter Gabrielborn 1950The Kate Bush Story (2014), On Kate Bush
Lady Gagaborn 1986The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960“Gunpowder treason and plot” Blog entry (5 Nov 2004)Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
James A. Garfield1831–1881The Province of History (c. 1856), Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 620
Judy Garland1922–1969Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
Paul Gauguin1848–1903The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 39: ‘Huysmans and Redon’, (written in 1889, published 1953)Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
André Gide1869–1951Andre Gide in: timothy James Brearton The Millionaire Rig Veda, Lulu.com, p. 40- André Gide1869–1951The Immoralist (1902), p. 159
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
André Gide1869–1951Journal, entry for 23 November 1940
