Art Quote by T S Eliot

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

— Eric T. Benoit

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.”

— Salvador de Madariaga

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

— Paul Cezanne

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“...emotions fly humans toward art”

— Rachel Hartman

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

— Louise Bogan