Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Walter Savage Landor

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

William Hazlitt

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

William Shatner

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Rudolf Steiner

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

William C. Bryant

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Yayoi Kusama

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Louise Bourgeois

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

Marsha Norman

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Constantin Brancusi

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Vinny Guadagnino

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Joni Mitchell

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Eddie Cahill

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Calvin Hill

It's the first painting I purchased in 1969 when I was a rookie.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.