Joseph Joubert Quotes on Art
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Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions- repressed.
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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.