William Butler Yeats Quotes

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Without art there is no hope.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art is spiritual.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

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

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

Art is the highest form of hope.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. All our faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.