Art Quote by Edmund Burke

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

Some poems are art because of their passion.

— Gerald Stern

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract.…

— Ernest Fenollosa

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in…

— Francisco Goya

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be…

— Anonymous

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising…

— Joshua Reynolds

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti