Art Quotes

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

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"Art reveals what logic cannot - the texture of human experience."
Kenneth Arrow
"Art is the language we use when conventional words fail us."
Kenneth Arrow
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"Art gives us permission to feel what we cannot always articulate."
Kenneth Boulding
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"The art of economics is knowing which assumptions to accept and which to challenge."
Paul Samuelson
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"Art and science merge in the creation of elegant economic models."
Paul Samuelson
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"We must learn to see the extraordinary in the ordinary."
Gunnar Myrdal
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"Economic development is the art of transforming potential into prosperity."
Simon Kuznets
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"Art is the language of ultimate concern."
Kenneth Boulding
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"The enemy of art is rationality without imagination."
Kenneth Boulding
"Art reflects the true nature of a society better than its laws."
Vilfredo Pareto
"Art is the expression of what cannot be rationally explained."
Vilfredo Pareto
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"Art reveals what science measures: the full spectrum of human experience."
Paul Samuelson
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"The art of living well is the art of seeing connections others miss."
Kenneth Boulding
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"Art reveals truths that science cannot measure and facts cannot capture."
Kenneth Boulding
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"Art and science are not opposites; they are two ways of seeking truth about reality."
Kenneth Boulding
"Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas."
Irving Fisher
"Art is the expression of the human spirit in tangible form."
Irving Fisher
"The great tradition of European culture cannot be and should not be preserved or restored."
Joseph Schumpeter
"Man's instinct of workmanship serves him as a guide in matters of aesthetic propriety."
Thorstein Veblen
"Beauty in art reflects beauty in the soul."
Thorstein Veblen
"Art is the expression of the deepest human longings."
Thorstein Veblen
"Art is the rebellion of those too civilized to fight."
Vilfredo Pareto
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"Art refines the sentiments of society."
Thomas Malthus
"Art is the expression of the soul of a civilization."
Vilfredo Pareto
"Art and science are merely different languages for describing reality."
Joseph Schumpeter
"Fashion is a contrivance for exempting the wearer from the necessity of being respectable."
Thorstein Veblen
"The accumulation of artifacts serves primarily as a display of purchasing power."
Thorstein Veblen
"Art is the mirror in which a civilization sees its own soul reflected."
Alfred Marshall
"Art without philosophy is decoration; philosophy without art is abstraction."
Alfred Marshall
"Art flourishes only when the economy is sound and people have leisure."
Irving Fisher