Aesthetic Communication Quotes

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Art problems are problems of human relationship.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

Art can articulate new ideas.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.