Art Quote by Wynton Marsalis

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what…

— Adrienne Rich

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to…

— W. S. Merwin

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or…

— Susan Sontag

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make a good…

— Douglas Florian

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded…He…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something…

— Mani Ratnam

Some poems are art because of their passion.

— Gerald Stern