Adrienne Rich Quotes, Art Quotes, Grief Quotes

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

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What has reason to do with the art of painting?

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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

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Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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