Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"The artist captures what reality merely suggests."
Ivan Konev
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look at it closely and declare that they have found a beautiful thing."
Omar Bradley
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"The art of war begins in the mind before the body moves."
Isoroku Yamamoto
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"Art is the highest form of communication between souls."
Isoroku Yamamoto
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"Art without emotion is merely technique."
Isoroku Yamamoto
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"Art reflects the soul of a civilization."
George C. Marshall
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"Art is the expression of the human spirit."
George C. Marshall
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"Art teaches us what war cannot: the value of creation over destruction."
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
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"Beauty in art outlasts beauty in weapons; this should teach us something."
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
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"The genius of war lies not in complexity, but in the elegant simplicity of a well-executed plan."
Konstantin Rokossovsky
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"Art and war are both ultimately expressions of the human spirit seeking meaning."
Ivan Konev
"Without traditions, art cannot flourish."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Art is the expression of the human soul."
Omar Bradley
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"War is an art and as such is not susceptible to explanation by fixed formula."
George S. Patton
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"Art reflects the soul of a people."
Paul von Hindenburg
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"Art speaks the language of the soul."
Paul von Hindenburg
"The art of war is the art of understanding your terrain and your enemy."
Erwin Rommel
"The art of warfare is knowing when to advance and when to consolidate."
Erwin Rommel
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"We are all simultaneously artists and artworks in the process of creation."
John French
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Edmund Allenby
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"The only true art is the art of living well."
Edmund Allenby
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"I believe that art is the expression of the human spirit."
Bernard Montgomery
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"Art is the language spoken when words fail us."
John French
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"Art saves lives by making them worth living."
John French
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"Art is the place where the soul comes to tell its untranslatable truths."
John French
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"The greatest art is the art of understanding others."
Alfred von Schlieffen
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"Art is the language through which we express what words alone cannot capture."
John French
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"Art expresses what words cannot."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"The art of being sometimes very impertinent and never impolite, is a great secret I would recommend to every young man."
Napoléon III
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"The beauty of strategy lies in its elegant simplicity when finally perceived."
Alfred von Schlieffen