William Butler Yeats Quotes

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I need art around me always.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

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

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.