Collective intelligence Quote by Patti Smith

In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the…

— Boris Pasternak

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.”

— Nick Hornby

“In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and…

— Eric Blehm

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we…

— Tracy K. Smith

“For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to…

— Joel Derfner

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from…

— William Carlos Williams

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression…

— John Drinkwater