Art Quote by Heinrich Heine

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever…

— Heinrich Heine

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

“The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is first and…

— Archibald MacLeish

“What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the…

— Anonymous

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects.…

— Chinua Achebe

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson