Art Quote by Camile Pagli

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

— Samuel Johnson

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

— Paul Klee

When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them -…

— William Carlos Williams

“Art has their ability to create their own meaning and artist is someone who interpret it.”

— ASAID