Art Poetry Music Quotes

• W. H. Auden / Poet

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

• Jamila Woods

I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.

• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel / Poet

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

• Steven Pinker / Psychologist

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

• Paramahansa Yogananda / Guru

Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

• Alain De Botton / Writer

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

• Fernand Leger / Painter

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

• Flea

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

• Luciana Berger

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.