All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of…

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

— Adam Smith

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills…

— Robert Ripley

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

— Emile Zola

You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in…

— Toshiko Takaezu

“Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

— Galileo Galilei