“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.” ArtTwoPaintMusicalVisualsPoetry Is Author:Eugenio Montale
“Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.” ArtWorstBecomingDemocraticVisualsBecoming MoreHymnsVisual Art Author:Eugenio Montale
“Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.” WellsArtLosesDarkIdentityCivilizationBackgroundsContemporaryWell Being Author:Eugenio Montale
“Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.” MenWorldArtUsedWaitingConsciousnessObjectsArt IsProductionsNew WorldConsumptionDiscarded Author:Eugenio Montale
“Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.” ArtNovelNarrativeGreat WorkProustNarrative Art Author:Eugenio Montale
“Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.” ArtPiecesReadyPaperPoetry IsPencils Author:Eugenio Montale
