Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.

Brian Selznick

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Charles Baudelaire

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Christopher Lasch

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Edgar Degas

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Elizabeth George

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Elia Kazan

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Francis Ford Coppola

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

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Giorgio de Chirico

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Guy Davenport

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Henry Rollins

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Judy Chicago

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Junot Diaz