John Ashbery Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

  John Ashbery

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

  John Ashbery, David Bergman (1989). “Reported sightings: art chronicles, 1957-1987”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

  John Ashbery

  Art, Poetry, Doubt

• And we may be led, then, upward through more
  Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
  With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
  Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
  Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

  John Ashbery

  Country, Art, Powerful

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

• Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

  John Ashbery

  Art, Failure, Imagine

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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