art Quotes

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The artist in me cries out for design.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.