Quotes about art
621 quotes from 285 people
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
E. E. Cummings1894–1962i: six nonlectures (1953), “Re Ezra Pound”Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dalí1904–1989Quote from People, 27 September 1976
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Enemies of Reason, “Slaves to Superstition” [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
Edgar Degas1834–1917‘The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas’, (1961)- Edgar Degas1834–1917Quote of Degas in conversation with George Moore, later quoted by Moore in Impressions and Opinions (1891)
- Edgar Degas1834–1917As quoted in Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), p. 56
- Edgar Degas1834–1917Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), “As He Grows Old”, p. 87
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. 342aPoetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Denis Diderot1713–1784On Dramatic Poetry (1758)You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 35I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness.
