Art Quote by Nikky Finney Download Open image “My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.” — Nikky Finney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Looks Poet Poetry Responsibility
An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour,… — Chiranjeevi Copy Share Image
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet. — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
At some point as an artist you have to take responsibility for everything you say. — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work. — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet. — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human… — Nikky Finney 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
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus 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
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
