Quotes about making art

‘Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add to but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.’ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Aviator and Writer of The Little Prince

‘For a poet to forget about song would be like living in a house and forgetting to ever go upstairs, or strolling to the edge of your garden and thinking: there’s a path over there leading down to the sea, but I’d better not take it…’ Unknown

‘Any good work of art can be analysed to have somehow perfectly balanced the forces of abstraction, realism and expressionism.’ Whiteley, Visual Artist.

‘There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality,’ Picasso.

‘I have never started a poem yet whose ending I know. Writing a poem is discovering.’ Robert Lee Frost.

‘At the still point of the turning world, neither flesh nor fleshless, neither from nor towards, at the still point there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement.’ T. S. Elliot