Art Quotes

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

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"The artist's job is to see beauty and show it to the rest of us."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"Art is the highest form of truth."
Alexander the Great
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"Art gives voice to what words alone cannot express."
Tony Campolo
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"Artists are prophets who see what others cannot yet see."
Tony Campolo
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"Art awakens something in us that rational argument cannot touch."
Rob Bell
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"Art is the expression of inner truth and feeling."
Henri Nouwen
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"Art is the soul's way of refusing to accept the world as given."
Tony Campolo
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"Art is the language of the soul that words cannot reach."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Art gives form to the formless yearnings of the soul."
Dominic de Guzmán
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"Art is one of the highest forms of worship and expression"
Rob Bell
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"Art points us toward transcendence and truth"
Rob Bell
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
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"Art is the effort of man to express in beautiful form the truth about himself and the world."
Thomas Merton
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"Art and poetry are not for the sake of creating objects, but for the sake of the development of our being."
Thomas Merton
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"Art reveals the nature of consciousness itself."
Rupert Spira
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"Art is the expression of understanding made visible."
Rupert Spira
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
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"Art is the expression of the infinite through the finite."
Rupert Spira
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"The artist's brush and the saint's prayers paint the same divine image."
Francis of Assisi
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"Art is the expression of your innermost truth."
Mooji
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"Art is not primarily about making beautiful things, but about expressing the deepest truths of the human experience."
Henri Nouwen
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"Art and music point us toward transcendence."
Richard Rohr
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
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"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment to the demand for entertainment which is made by the needs of the human heart."
Thomas Merton
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"Art is the expression of truth when language fails."
Adyashanti
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"Art is the celebration of being alive in this moment."
Adyashanti
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"The artist's task is to reveal the unity behind apparent separation."
Rupert Spira
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"Art is the manifestation of consciousness knowing itself through form."
Rupert Spira
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"Art expresses the ineffable."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"He who works with his hands is a laborer; he who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman; he who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
Francis of Assisi