Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before him; in…

— Anonymous

I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just…

— David Hockney

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming.…

— Ingmar Bergman

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art,…

— Amy Sherald

“After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and…

— Ambroise Vollard

“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the little browns,…

— Maggie Nelson

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

— Mark Strand

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade