Art Quotes

"Art speaks to the heart in ways that logic cannot reach."

"Art and creativity are forms of resistance against dehumanization and social oppression."

"Art is long, life is short."

"Architecture is frozen music."

"Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work; nothing is easier than to create a symbolic one."

"Art and music are expressions of the human spirit's deepest longings."

"Art is the effort to produce a particular kind of experience."

"Criticism is an art, and like all arts, it requires both knowledge and sensibility."

"Art celebrates power, and this is its supreme function."

"The touchstone of any civilization is its art."

"Art is the manifestation of the absolute through the sensible."

"Sublimity is the attempt to express the infinite, without a truly adequate presentation."

"Tragedy shows us that individuals are subordinate to universal forces."

"Art dies when it becomes merely decorative."

"The symbol points beyond itself to the infinite."

"Art is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation."

"The greatest art is to teach."

"Art is the expression of the infinite through the finite forms of human creation."

"The aesthetic experience connects us to something transcendent."

"Art is the soul speaking when words fail."

"Art without passion is just technique."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public taste is to ignore it."

"To create is to participate in the divine act of existence."

"Art captures human experience in ways that science cannot."

"Art is how we communicate the unsayable."

"The greatest art is to teach, for in teaching we shape the very future of mankind."

"Art imitates life, but great art transforms how we see life."

"Art expresses the human spirit in ways data cannot."