Elizabeth Bishop Quotes about Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

Art, Sunset, Loss

Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

Elizabeth Bishop

Art, Self, Useless

Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

Elizabeth Bishop

Art, Delicate Things, Roaring

Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Elizabeth Bishop

Art, Keys, Doors

Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

Breakup, Art, Writing

Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan