Art Quotes

"The one thing about music is that there are no rules" "Music is the best means we have of digesting time" "The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity" "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" "To make living itself an art, that is the goal" "We work in the dark we do what we can we give what we have our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task the rest is the madness of art " "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos" "The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature" "Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul" "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science" "Nature is the art of God" "Sunlight is painting" "Moonlight is sculpture" "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it" "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "The real risks for any artist are taken... in the work" "Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists" "Bring me all of your dreams you dreamer bring me all your heart melodies"