“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
More from John Keats on Art
“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.”
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
“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.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
Steven Pressfield
7 quotes“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Art is anything you can get away with.”