3 Marianne Moore Quotes on Art

Marianne Moore quotes on art

6. I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.

10. He's not out seeing a sight but the rock crystal thing to see - the startling El Greco brimming with inner light - that covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know as the hero.

12. Beauty is everlasting and dust is for a time.