Edith Sitwell Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Reality, Poetry

  "Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.

• All great art contains an element of the irrational.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Elements, Irrational

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

• Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Magic, Shapes

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  Edith Sitwell

  Life, Art, Hymns

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

• It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Men, Doe

  "The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary", Special Supplement (p. 2047), 1966.

• What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Artist, Knows

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

• I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Women, Inspiration

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book edited by Abby Adams, November 1, 1989.

• the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.130, A&C Black

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