Art Quotes

"The notion that art should have a political purpose is a confusion of categories."

"The only means of sustaining the civilized life is through the arts."

"Art is the only response to the totality of existence that is not dogmatic."

"Art is the means by which the divine nature expresses itself through human creativity."

"The beautiful must appear to consciousness as purposive without purpose."

"The monument endures to transmit the memory and meaning of the past."

"Art expresses content that cannot be articulated in abstract conceptual terms."

"Art is not about perfection—it is about saying something that cannot be said any other way."

"Art is the expression of the supersensible through the sensible."

"Art is the sensuous manifestation of truth"

"Culture is the expression of a people's consciousness"

"The spirit of the age is manifest in its greatest works"

"Art is the effort of the mind to understand the world through beauty."

"Art requires both taste and execution"

"Eloquence is the painting of thought"

"The artist must be as disciplined as the mathematician."

"The aesthetic judgment is neither purely subjective nor purely objective."

"Aesthetic experience is a unique form of human cognition."

"The beauty of a machine consists in its fitness for the purpose intended."

"The spectator becomes a spectator because the action is pleasing to him."

"Art is the appearance of truth in sensuous form."

"Art speaks to what philosophy can only think."

"Arts and sciences are not to be cast aside for the sake of uniformity."

"Art is the imaginative expression of the human spirit."

"Art expresses what words cannot convey."

"An cultivated taste for the arts is one of the most valuable acquisitions."

"Art and culture are the soul of a free people."

"Art at its highest expresses the eternal necessity of things."

"The beautiful and noble works of art are the monuments of the wisdom and virtue of their respective ages."

"Art is the unnatural, nature is the work of time."