“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
More from John Keats on Art
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Ezra Pound
7 quotes“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
Jackson Pollock
7 quotes“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
W.H. Auden
7 quotes“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of...”