Art Quote by Fumio Sasaki

“This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals…

— Kenneth Yasuda

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think…

— Robert Hass

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

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather…

— Michael Kenna

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if…

— Georges Braque

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom,…

— Santoka Taneda

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

— Grayson Perry

When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what…

— Naoto Fukasawa

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski