Applause Quotes - Page 2

The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.

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

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

The body says what words cannot.

Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

When words leave off music begins.

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Down deep we really know our worth but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.