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Art Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a…
- When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.
- Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
- I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in…
- No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art…
- Art is the escape from personality.
- The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't…
- The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
- Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
- The Function of Criticism is the display the understand of art and re-formation of taste, there is promoting by understand and enjoyment of art.
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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