Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."Kathy Acker
"The body is a text that can be read and rewritten."Kathy Acker
"Art exists in the space between what is said and what is unsaid."Kathy Acker
"Art is the space where impossible things become possible."Kathy Acker
"Art breaks the rules so we can see them."Kathy Acker
"The avant-garde is simply honesty taken seriously."Kathy Acker
"Art that doesn't risk something is not art."Kathy Acker
"The body writes what the mind cannot speak."Kathy Acker
"The greatest art emerges from the greatest suffering."Kathy Acker
"Art has always been able to express what words cannot."Nelson Mandela
"Art is the only truth in a world of lies."Elena Garro
"Art mirrors the fractured nature of existence."Elena Garro
"Art transcends the limitations of language."Elena Garro
"Art is the language of the soul."Elena Garro
"I write because I have an inner need to do so."Rosario Castellanos
"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."Rosario Castellanos
"Art transcends the boundaries of language."Rosario Castellanos
"To write is to breathe life into the voiceless and give voice to the forgotten."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Art transforms suffering into beauty, making the unbearable bearable."Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Art is the eternal language that speaks when words fail us."Rubén Darío
"Art is the conversation between the artist's soul and the viewer's."Rubén Darío
"Poetry is a way of saying things that prose cannot express."Gioconda Belli
"Art is the language of those who cannot speak."Gioconda Belli
"The work of art is the work of the soul."Gioconda Belli
"Art is the voice of those who have no voice."Nellie Campobello
"Art gives form to what the spirit longs to express."Nellie Campobello
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn by going forward."Kathy Acker
"We are trapped in our own skins, so we must make art of our confinement."Kathy Acker
"Art should make us uncomfortable. Comfort is complicity."Kathy Acker
"The purpose of writing is to illuminate what is hidden in plain sight."Kathy Acker