• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic 1809-1845
  

  - +

  -1

Check all quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects in these quotes:

1. reproduction
2. imitation
3. accurate
4. entitles
5. nature
6. sacred

Similar authors

• Robert Frost
  American poet 0
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 0
• Ezra Pound
  American poet 0
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 0
• Wystan Hugh Auden
  American poet 0
• Emily Dickinson
  American poet 0
• Wallace Stevens
  American poet 0
• Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic 0

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.'' by : Edgar Allan Poe

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations