“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
More from Wallace Stevens on Art
“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”
“Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
“A poem is a meteor.”
“In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”
“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
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.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
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”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
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...”
Steven Pressfield
7 quotes“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”