Quotes about Art
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
- Peter Kreeft
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
- Joseph Campbell
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- Aristotle
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
- Oscar Wilde
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
- Margaret Atwood
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
- Aristotle
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer