Art Quote by Walter Pater

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

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a…

— Anonymous

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

— Aristotle

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are…

— Anthony Powell

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone…

— Rainer Maria Rilke