“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
More from Percy Shelley on Art
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
Others on Art
Picasso
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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.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
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.”
Wallace Stevens
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Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Ansel Adams
7 quotes“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Ezra Pound
7 quotes“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Jackson Pollock
7 quotes“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”