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  • What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Dysfunction Quotes
  • Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Art Quotes
  • Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Essence Quotes
  • Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Art Quotes , Prayer Quotes
  • No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Art Quotes
  • T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about. That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aileen Fisher Quotes , Art Quotes , Nice Quotes