Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The art of living well is the art of knowing what to accept and what to resist."Thomas More
"Art is the mirror in which humanity sees its own reflection most clearly."Thomas More
"The true art of living is to have a great appreciation of all life."Michel de Montaigne
"The contemplation of mathematical truths elevates the human spirit."Hypatia
"Art and science are not opposites, but lovers in an eternal dance."Hypatia
"Art imitates the eternal forms imperfectly."Porphyry
"Art is the expression of the soul."Strabo
"Art preserves what time would destroy."Strabo
"Art is the mirror of the soul."Petronius
"Art is the expression of the soul."Petronius
"Art is the soul's attempt to express what words cannot contain."Diogenes Laërtius
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that talks."Plutarch
"Art imitates nature."Plutarch
"An actor who cannot move you, who cannot awaken you to a sense of beauty, has no right to call himself an actor."Plutarch
"Art imitates nature, but it does so imperfectly and by contrast reveals nature's superiority."Michel de Montaigne
"Art that merely imitates material forms misses the beauty of eternal essences."Porphyry
"The earth is the canvas upon which humanity paints its story."Strabo
"The artist sees beauty where others see only things."Petronius
"Art is the voice of the soul when words fail."Petronius
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."Apuleius
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."Apuleius
"Art reflects not the world as it is, but as the artist perceives it to be."Diogenes Laërtius
"The artist's burden is to make the invisible visible."Diogenes Laërtius
"Even the poor can create beautiful things."Juvenal
"Art is the imitation of nature."Plutarch
"The beauty of mathematics lies not in its answers, but in its questions."Hypatia
"The circle is the most perfect form because it is complete and eternal."Hypatia
"The pursuit of beauty in mathematics reveals the underlying structure of all things."Hypatia
"Geometry is frozen music; mathematics is the music of the universe."Hypatia
"In the presence of great beauty, the soul becomes aware of its own vastness."Hypatia