Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"Art expresses what logic alone cannot adequately convey."George Berkeley
"Art is the language through which the soul speaks what words cannot express."Antonio Genovesi
"Art should imitate the mechanisms of nature."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Art reflects the mechanical beauty of natural organization."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"The artist's true canvas is the transformation of inner vision into outer form."Johann Tetens
"Art is the human response to the vastness and mystery of existence."Johann Tetens
"Poetry must precede prose in the evolution of human thought."Giovanni Vico
"The artist is the one who sees what others merely look at."Giovanni Vico
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Johann Goethe
"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public taste is to ignore it."Johann Goethe
"To the man who loves art, the world is never ugly."Johann Goethe
"Art is the beautiful revelation of man to himself."Johann Herder
"Art gives voice to the human soul."Johann Herder
"Art is the expression of the human spirit and experience."Catharine Macaulay
"Art reveals what mere observation cannot discover."Catharine Macaulay
"Art is the daughter of freedom."Friedrich Schiller
"The world needs beauty as well as bread."Friedrich Schiller
"Where the muses reign, there is abundance without excess."Friedrich Schiller
"Art is the expression of the soul."Hugo Grotius
"Art speaks where words fail."Hugo Grotius
"Art is the expression of reason made visible and tangible."Christian Wolff
"Art elevates the human spirit above mere existence"Jean Bodin
"Art expresses what words cannot convey"Jean Bodin
"Art elevates the human spirit above the mundane."Hugo Grotius
"Art arises from the depths of human feeling and experience."Johann Herder
"Art is the testimony of the human spirit's refusal to accept mere existence."Johann Herder
"Art and literature are records of human thought and aspiration."Catharine Macaulay
"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."Johann Goethe
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Johann Goethe
"The most important thing about painting is the frame. It separates the vision from the dream."Johann Goethe