Art Quotes

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

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"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
Coco Chanel
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"Chic - it is an attitude. An art. A way of life."
Coco Chanel
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"Technique is something you can always learn, but if you don't have feeling, you can never fake it."
Coco Chanel
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
Coco Chanel
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"The wood speaks to me if I listen with my hands and heart."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The bow and the wood must become one consciousness."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The maker's hand must be guided by the maker's ear."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The voice of the violin is the voice of the maker speaking through wood."
Antonio Stradivari
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"Cinema is a language that speaks to the soul of humanity."
Ismail Merchant
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"The best films are born from conflict and resolution."
Ismail Merchant
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"True art requires both discipline and spontaneity."
Ismail Merchant
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"Art without audience is like a song without ears to hear it."
Ismail Merchant
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"Nature provides the canvas; human ingenuity provides the vision."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"A well-designed object speaks to the user across the centuries, transcending time itself."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The pursuit of beauty in manufacture is the pursuit of truth in action."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"Art is the most noble of enterprises."
Cosimo Medici
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Cosimo Medici
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Cosimo Medici
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"Art reflects the prosperity of a city"
Jacob Fugger
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"Art elevates the soul where gold merely weighs it down."
Giovanni Medici
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"The architecture of a great city reflects the character of its citizens."
Giovanni Medici
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"I am determined to render the art of pottery to a degree of perfection never before attained."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"Art without purpose is mere decoration; purpose without art is mere utility."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"The true artist serves something beyond himself."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"Beauty in art mirrors the beauty of a well-ordered life."
Cosimo Medici
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"The wood speaks to those who listen with their hands and heart."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The weight of an instrument matters less than its spirit."
Antonio Stradivari
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"The varnish is merely the final word in a long conversation with the wood."
Antonio Stradivari