Art Quote by Jacob Nordby

“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what…

— Alberto Caeiro

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith

“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry

“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories…

— Chuck Wendig

“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.”

— Cynthia Pearl Maus

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were…

— Robert E. Howard

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else…

— Chaim Potok

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

“There's a reason why I tell this story. To me these Sunday painters represent myo—the strangeness of beauty—an idea that transcendence can be found…

— Lydia Minatoya

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.”

— M.F. Moonzajer