Absurdism Quote by Curtis Ackie

“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

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the…

— T.S. Eliot

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things…

— Walter Isaacson

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the…

— T S Eliot