Kurt Schwitters Quotes

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

Songwriting's a weird game.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

All art is erotic.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.