Quotes about art
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Stevie Nicksborn 1948Kia Makarechi, “Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac’s Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music”, Huffington Post, 3 December 2012
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.33A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of Creation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Der Fall Wagner (1888)
Anaïs Nin1903–1977The Novel of the Future (1969)- Anaïs Nin1903–1977February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis.
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938“‘Soul at the White Heat’: The Romance of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry,” (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)- MOMary Oliver1935–2019Evidence (2009), “Evidence”
- MOMary Oliver1935–2019Blue Pastures (1995)
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Tristia, Book I, poem 1, line 39Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 624The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
