Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The artist and the scientist are engaged in the same fundamental enterprise: the pursuit of truth through creative vision."Karl Popper
"Every job done well is a form of art."Ludwig von Mises
"Art gives form to emotions that defy description."Ludwig von Mises
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."Alfred North Whitehead
"The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the course of life."Alfred North Whitehead
"Art and literature are the spaces where we can imagine alternatives to the present system."Noam Chomsky
"Language is the primary tool through which we construct social reality."Noam Chomsky
"Art expresses what science cannot measure."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Art exists where rules meet imagination in productive tension."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Art and science are not opposites; they are different ways of engaging with reality."Paul Feyerabend
"Art and literature must be removed from the sphere of money-making."John Maynard Keynes
"The beauty and mystery of art and science should not be destroyed by the commercial motive."John Maynard Keynes
"The artist and the scientist are pursuing the same fundamental questions."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Every symbol contains a universe of meaning."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The artist sees what the scientist measures."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Symbols are the currency of human meaning."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"The very fact that aesthetics plays a major role in theory choice suggests that the criteria of choice with which I began are not all of one kind."Thomas Kuhn
"Art and literature preserve what power wishes to suppress and forget."Noam Chomsky
"Art speaks truths that rationality alone cannot reach."Noam Chomsky
"Art is the most wonderful of all forms of expression."Jérémie Bentham
"Beauty in art is the expression of truth."Karl Popper
"Art is the expression of the artist's attempt to make sense of experience."Karl Popper
"Art emerges from the human need to transform the raw material of experience."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Every symbol carries multiple meanings simultaneously."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Language allows us to express infinite thoughts with finite means."Noam Chomsky
"The human capacity for language enables both poetry and propaganda."Noam Chomsky
"Art is the effort of man to express his own consciousness."John Maynard Keynes
"Art is the expression of the human soul."Antonio Genovesi
"Art without passion is merely craft."Antonio Genovesi