The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
~ Nick Cave
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
~ Gia Coppola
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
~ Bill Griffith
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.
~ Charles Saatchi
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
~ Tina Weymouth
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
~ Edmund Burke
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.
~ Sarah Kay
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
~ Jason Mraz
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
~ Robert Morgan
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
~ Wole Soyinka
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.
~ Robert Pinsky
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
~ Marianne Moore
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
~ Erik Satie
I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.
~ Rebecca Sugar
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.
~ Louis Macneice
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
~ Maya Angelou
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
~ Steven Pinker
The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'
~ Alain De Botton
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
~ Michael Leunig
To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
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.
~ Seamus Heaney
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.
~ Philippe Petit
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
~ Felix Dennis
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
~ Flea
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
~ Edward Hirsch
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.
~ Fred Durst
Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
~ Rupi Kaur
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
~ Ed Koch
Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
~ Donald Hall
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
~ Lynda Barry
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
~ Jamila Woods
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
~ David Whyte
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
~ Ezra Pound
Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
~ Jonathan Galassi
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
~ Susan Vreeland
