What did Wallace Stevens mean by: Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA Copy
+ To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Conception, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Dark, Imagination, Light, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Art, Desire, Poetry, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Details, Imagination, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Mind, Poet, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Wallace Stevens, Fate, Race, Writing, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ The imperfect is our paradise. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Imperfect, Paradise, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
+ Success as a result of industry is a peasant’s ideal. Feraz Zeid, September 21, 2023December 24, 2023, Wallace Stevens, Ideals, Peasants, Results, 0 - Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
