Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
Robert Pinsky
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but... →
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its... →
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a... →
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
John Piper
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well... →
Robert M. Pirsig
Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro