W.H.Auden Art Quotes

What did W.H.Auden say about Art?

W.H.Auden has written many quotes about Art. E.g.,

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

What are the top most famous Art quotes by W.H.Auden?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Art by W.H.Auden.

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
• Art is born of humiliation.
• A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.