Art Quote by Emile Zola

“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

“A man who works with his hands is a labourer. A man who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. A…

— Saint Francis of Assisi

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

“A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. A…

— Louis Nizer

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

Each man has his own batch of poems.

— Saul Bellow

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

— Orson Welles

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Art is its own thing, and so is craft — and creativity is common to both, in the same way as its absence. Without…

— Ivan Goncharov

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul…

— Aphra Behn

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works…

— Saint Francis of Assisi

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

— Benjamin Disraeli