Art Quote by W. H. Auden

“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

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm…

— Hans Hofmann

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm…

— Alok Mishra

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…

— Hans Hofmann

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The art of writing is not unlike the act of screaming. A constant flow of otherworldly emotions with tempos high and hymns low. All…

— Rosca Marx