Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"Awrt is the pewfect pewfection of the human spiwit."
Elmer Fudd
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"Awrt iwsew ewvewiewdewencewew owf thewew suwbliewmewew."
Elmer Fudd
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"Art, true art, speaks to something eternal in the human spirit."
Jedediah Leland
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"Art is the testimony of what we felt when we were alive."
Jedediah Leland
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"Singing was my escape from everything."
Susan Alexander
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"He wanted to control my voice, my art, my soul."
Susan Alexander
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"I wanted to sing, not to be a monument."
Susan Alexander
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"My voice was my only true possession."
Susan Alexander
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"My voice deserved better than to be his trophy."
Susan Alexander
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"My voice was meant to touch people's hearts, not stroke his ego."
Susan Alexander
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"My voice was beautiful, but he made me hate it."
Susan Alexander
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"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."
Norma Desmond
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"The camera loved me. It always loved me."
Norma Desmond
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"I wanted to be a writer. Instead, I became a hack."
Joe Gillis
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"I wrote for money, not for art. That was my first mistake."
Joe Gillis
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"I wanted to matter, to create something real. Instead, I created garbage."
Joe Gillis
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"In the cinema, nothing is real except the light upon the screen."
Max von Mayerling
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"I believe in the permanence of art and the transience of all else."
Max von Mayerling
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"The cinema is a dream factory. Some of us merely tend the machinery."
Max von Mayerling
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"Art is not just about beauty; it's about truth."
Charles Foster Kane
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"Art speaks to the soul in ways words cannot."
Charles Foster Kane
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"Art is the mirror of society's deepest wounds."
Jedediah Leland
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"Art asks the questions that cannot be answered."
Jedediah Leland
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"Art and warfare share one essential truth: they both require vision."
Captain Love
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"The artist and the swordsman both seek to create something that outlives them."
Captain Love
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"Art immortalizes the moment; war destroys it."
Captain Love
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"Art should come from the heart, not from obligation."
Susan Alexander
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"He tried to make me into art, but I was always just a person."
Susan Alexander
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"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces then."
Norma Desmond
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"New pictures? I don't need new pictures. I am the picture."
Norma Desmond