Artist Quote by Helen Vendler Download Open image “The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.” — Helen Vendler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Busy Disappear Without a trace
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
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There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image