Nikki Giovanni Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Eye, Sanctuary

• Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Wine, Emotional

• We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Artist, Ends

  Nikki Giovanni (1975). “The women and the men”, William Morrow &Company

• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Reality, Taste

  Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker (1974). “A poetic equation: conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker”, Howard Univ Pr

• We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Lonely, Art, Connections

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

• I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Art, Thinking, Nina

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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