Louise Bogan Quotes about Art

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Art, Ambition, Hysteria

Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Art, Achievement, Feelings

Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

Art, Revolution

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Art, Struggle, Emotion

Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Art, Attitude, Emotional