Bully Quote by John Marin

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“So why do you only paint than flowers? Cause they’re the only ones that don’t seems to be complaining how I seen them”

— Camilla Noxell

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its…

— John Keats

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something…

— Vic Reeves

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that…

— John McGahern

“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no!…

— Gustave Flaubert

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

“The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the…

— Toni Morrison

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you…

— Wayne White