Art Quotes

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.