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T. S. Eliot Quotes

T. S. Eliot quotes about art

American Poet September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. T. S. Eliot
It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe- until recently- have been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all of our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning...I do not believe that culture of Europe could survive the... T. S. Eliot
The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot quote: "No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone."
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot quote: "Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite..."
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot

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