Joseph Brodsky Art Quotations
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- All Art Quotes
- Sun Tzu
- Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Jerry Saltz
- Gerhard Richter
- Pablo Picasso
- William Shakespeare
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Susan Sontag
- Seth Godin
- Henri Matisse
- Rajneesh
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Ruskin
- Bruce Lee
- Andy Warhol
- Samuel Johnson
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Against Quotes
In the works of the better poets you get the sensation that they're not talking to people any more, or to some seraphical creature. What they're doing is simply talking back to the language itself --as beauty, sensuality, wisdom, irony --those aspects of language of which the poet is a clear mirror. Poetry is not an art or a branch of art, it's something more. If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological, indeed genetic, goal. Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a ''read,'' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place, against himself.
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Book Quotes
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.
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Animal Quotes
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.