Quotes about Art

A well-made sentence, I think, is a thing of beauty.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

I made it on the bevel.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.