Art Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Poe would certainly have applauded Walter Pater’s assertion that ‘all art continuously aspires to the condition of music’ – to that ideally abstract medium…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this…

— John Cusack

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

“Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.”

— Will Gompertz

“Art is the endeavour to sense the invisible rhythms that surround us, to discover their law, to turn chaos to order.”

— Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“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

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific…

— Jules de Goncourt

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann