Archibald MacLeish Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Mean, Sight

• Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Understanding, Alive

  Recalled on his death, 20 Apr1982.

• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Chaos, Human Experience

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

• . . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have -- and it is for this reason that arts go on for generation to generation in spite of the fact that Phidias has already carved and Homer has already sung. The creation, we are informed, was accomplished in seven days with Sunday off, but the recreation will never be accomplished because it is always accomplished anew for each generation of living men.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Sunday, Men

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