Art Quotes

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

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"The human soul requires beauty and art as much as the body requires food and water."
Hugo Münsterberg
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Elmer Sperry
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"Art is the expression of the soul."
Elmer Sperry
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"The art of living is the art of avoiding pain."
Charles Flint
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"Art is the language of the soul that transcends words."
Colby M. Chester
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"Art is the expression of the inexpressible within us."
Colby M. Chester
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"The art of business is the art of human understanding."
Elbert Gary
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"The artist's struggle is the same as the industrialist's—to create something of lasting value."
Elbert Gary
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"Art is the language the soul speaks when words fail us."
Charles Flint
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"Art is the mirror of the soul of a civilization."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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"Art without purpose is decoration; art with purpose is revolution."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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"Art is the expression of what cannot be said in words."
John C. Fremont
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"Art elevates the human spirit above the mundane."
John C. Fremont
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"Art is the language of the soul when words fail us completely."
Colby M. Chester
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"Art disturbs the comfortable and comforts the disturbed."
Colby M. Chester
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
James Fisk
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"Art is humanity's attempt to express what cannot be said in mere words."
Charles Flint
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"Art is the soul's conversation with eternity."
Charles Flint
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"Art and engineering are not opposites; both require vision and precision."
Elmer Sperry
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"Art is the language spoken by the soul when words fail."
Colby M. Chester
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"Art is the conversation between the artist and the eternal."
Colby M. Chester
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"Art teaches us that there are infinite ways to solve a single problem."
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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"The theater taught me that life is performance; success is in the execution."
James Fisk
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"The greatest art is the art of knowing which rules to break and when."
James Fisk
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"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing forth new worlds."
Charles Flint
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"Art and beauty are indulgences for the poor who need distraction."
Jay Gould
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"Art and science are not opposites; they are partners in the dance of creation."
Elmer Sperry
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"Art is the poetry of science, and science is the engine of art."
Elmer Sperry
"I pursued business as an art form, crafting something beautiful and functional."
Charles Crocker
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"The beauty of the untamed world awakens something that civilization has put to sleep."
John C. Fremont