Allen Ginsberg Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, War, Community Living

  Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Years, Poetry

• Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Philosophy, People

• Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Self, Expression

• We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Hurt, Mirrors

• Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Mind, Art Is

  Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg (2009). “The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1956-1991”, p.254, Counterpoint Press

• Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Horse, Art, Wind

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