Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"Beauty in art reflects the harmony of divine creation."Moses Mendelssohn
"Art and beauty are expressions of the divine in human form."Hugo Grotius
"Beauty in nature is a reflection of divine order and harmony."Hugo Grotius
"Art is the only true commerce between all nations and all ages."Friedrich Schiller
"Beauty is the path that leads to infinite truth."Friedrich Schiller
"Art expresses the invisible order that governs all visible things."Christian Wolff
"Art elevates the soul and connects us to the divine within ourselves."Moses Mendelssohn
"The true mathematician is a poet."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"Mathematics is both an art and a science."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and speak a few reasonable words."Johann Goethe
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."Johann Goethe
"The greatest respect an artist can pay to the public is not to talk down, and not to take them for granted."Johann Goethe
"Everyone wants to understand painting, but why does anyone want to understand the song of a bird?"Johann Goethe
"Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art."Johann Goethe
"Method is the soul of art."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing more."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"Art is the expression of the human soul."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Art is the expression of the idea of the infinite."Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
"Art and music are the languages through which the soul speaks to the world."Jean Bodin
"Beauty in art reflects the deeper truths of human existence and divine order."Moses Mendelssohn
"Art speaks to the eternal aspects of human nature that transcend time and culture."Moses Mendelssohn
"The art of teaching is to make the complex appear simple without diminishing truth."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"Every formula is a love letter written to the natural world."Joseph-Louis Lagrange
"The style is the man himself."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"Everything that is not nature is art."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"In art as in life, the beautiful must triumph over the ugly."Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
"The classification of nature is the poetry of reason."Carl Linnaeus
"Art expresses what language cannot capture, and captures what language cannot express."Moses Mendelssohn
"Art is the mirror in which humanity sees itself most clearly."Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Art and science are the greatest achievements of human civilization."Jean d'Alembert