art Quotes

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.