e. e. cummings Quotes about Art

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Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

e. e. cummings

Art, Mystery, Art Is

E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.274, W. W. Norton & Company

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

e. e. cummings

Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e. e. cummings

Witty, Art, Money

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

e. e. cummings

Art, Forever, Individuality

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

e. e. cummings

Art, Light, White

"Tulips and Chimneys".