Art Quote by the mag man

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental…

— Randall Jarrell

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will…

— Patrick Swift

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“It is a downright brilliant art to be ,successful quiet, in a bright noisy world.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

— Louise Colet

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and…

— Clement Greenberg

If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best…

— Edward Albee

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

— Leonard Nimoy

It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing…

— Edward Betts

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by…

— Tino Sehgal