Art

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate

The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by it

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn't go as readily as looking.

This story is really nothing at all, and the scratch is nothing too, but from one thing and another you'll perhaps understand what I mean, namely that of late everything had a je ne sais quoi that made one feel like scribbling it down on paper.

In short, the whole of nature is an inexpressibly beautiful Black and White exhibition when there are those snow effects.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise

Love is the poetry of the senses.

A picture is worth a thousand words

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

The history of art is the history of revivals

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

All art is but imitation of nature