Its a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more mo

Its 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. – W. H. Auden

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Art
category

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oysters autobiography. – Federico Fellini

Category:
Art

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Art

The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

Category:
Art

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously. – Paul Davies

Category:
Technology

Every morning is a beautiful morning. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Morning

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Racism

Its never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around. – Al Pacino

Category:
Morning