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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Experience
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
Carl Jung1875–1961
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo1907–1954As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)
- Health
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida Kahlo1907–1954As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)
Schoenberg’s music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.
Wassily Kandinsky1866–1944Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), tr. Michael T. Sadler (1914); Dover reprint (1977), p. 17
- Music
The poetry of earth is never dead.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Nature
- Poetry
A drainless shower
Of light is poesy; ’tis the supreme of power;
’Tis might half slumb’ring on its own right arm.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Poetry
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.
John Keats1795–1821To Richard Woodhouse (27 October 1818)
- Poetry
The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself.
John Keats1795–1821To James Hessey (9 October 1818)
- Genius
- Poetry
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Time
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Music
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
John Keats1795–1821On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816)In context
- Poetry
- Reading
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956)
- Poetry
- Politics
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)