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  • He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Dog Quotes , Art Quotes
  • Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. O. Scott Quotes , Art Quotes , Causes Quotes