Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The soul is the artist; the body is merely the canvas."Rudolf Steiner
"Art is the expression of the human soul striving toward the divine"Charles Wesley
"Art elevates the ordinary to reveal the extraordinary within"Charles Wesley
"Art is the justification of existence."Friedrich Nietzsche
"The artist is the medium through which the world speaks."Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art lest we perish from the truth."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the language through which the soul speaks truths that words cannot capture."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Art is the language through which the soul speaks to other souls."Jacob Böhme
"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's when we know he's fresh out of ideas."William James
"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."William James
"Art is the soul's attempt to express what words cannot capture."Charles Wesley
"We have art so that we do not perish from the truth."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the language of the soul made visible."Emanuel Swedenborg
"Art, at its best, reveals eternal truths through temporal forms."Jonathan Edwards
"The art of living well is the highest art form."Jonathan Edwards
"Art teaches us to see the world as God might see it."Charles Wesley
"The artist must first understand the world before transforming it."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the expression of what cannot be spoken."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art expresses the inexpressible and bridges the gap between the material and spiritual."Emanuel Swedenborg
"Art is the window to the infinite."Ibn Arabi
"The greatest art is the art of living well."Emanuel Swedenborg
"The artist creates by channeling divine creative force."Jacob Böhme
"Art is the soul's attempt to express what words cannot touch."Jacob Böhme
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Let yourself become living poetry."Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"Listen to presences inside poems, let them work on you like the aromas of a human body."Hafiz
"A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish the chicory of the soul."Hafiz
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."Hafiz
"Art expresses what the human heart struggles to speak in ordinary words."Charles Wesley