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