Art Quotes

"Culture serves as an instrument of domination."

"Art preserves the memory of what could have been."

"Art reminds us that another world is possible."

"Culture is the residue of freedom in an unfree world."

"A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating."

"One cannot look at the most important paintings without being able to read."

"Art exists in the tension between creation and destruction."

"Art is the anticipation of a better world that has not yet come into being."

"In every work of art lives an unfinished revolution."

"Art is the reflection of reality through the consciousness of the artist."

"Realism in art means depicting life as it actually exists."

"Art must serve the cause of human liberation and progress."

"True art transcends the merely subjective to achieve objective significance."

"Form and content are inseparable in great artistic works."

"The aesthetic dimension of life cannot be separated from the social."

"Art speaks most powerfully when it engages with the concrete details of life."

"The work of art must be organically whole and complete."

"Great art endures because it captures eternal human truths."

"The work of art must serve humanity's ultimate liberation."

"Art achieves its highest purpose when it moves toward truth."

"Art must refuse compromise with mediocrity and falsehood."

"The power of art lies in its ability to transform consciousness."

"The work of the artist is to help humanity see itself clearly."

"Art is the setting-into-work of truth."

"Being reveals itself completely only in art."

"Man dwells poetically on earth."

"Art is the becoming and happening of truth."

"Being manifests itself through art and poetry."

"Art retains a utopian quality precisely because it refuses to accept the world as given."

"The cinema, by virtue of its form, is particularly suited to the representation of material reality."