Art Quotes

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

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"Poetry is the soul's rebellion against the body's limitations."
Luis Cernuda
J
"The poet's work is to capture the invisible made visible through words."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"Art is the conversation between the visible and invisible worlds."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"Art is the bridge between the inner world and outer reality."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
R
"Poetry is the voice of those who cannot speak in ordinary language."
Rafael Alberti
R
"Art is the only revolution that never loses its weapons."
Rafael Alberti
R
"The pen writes what the heart has already decided."
Rafael Alberti
F
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place"
Federico García Lorca
F
"To be an artist is to refuse the comfortable prison of certainty"
Federico García Lorca
F
"The artist paints not what he sees but what he feels seeing it"
Federico García Lorca
"Art is the rebellion of the beautiful against the ordinary."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The artist is a translator between worlds."
Leopoldo Lugones
"To create beauty is to participate in the divine."
Leopoldo Lugones
"Art is the conversation between the impossible and the real."
Julio Cortázar
"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion against what already exists."
Julio Cortázar
"Words are the only weapons we possess against forgetting."
Luis Cernuda
"Art exists because reality is unbearable."
Luis Cernuda
"Art is the shadow of what we cannot say directly."
Luis Cernuda
"The artist's duty is to make the invisible visible."
Luis Cernuda
"The truth we cannot speak becomes the art we must create."
Luis Cernuda
J
"Art is not merely representation; it is creation itself."
Jorge Luis Borges
J
"The only thing that consoles us for the absurdity of life is the beauty of art."
Jorge Luis Borges
A
"Art is the effort of man to express, not to impress."
Antonio Machado
A
"The artist's brush speaks what the tongue cannot."
Antonio Machado
J
"To be a poet is not about writing verses; it is about seeing the world with a child's eyes."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"Art is the bridge between the invisible world and visible reality."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
J
"To create beauty is to participate in the divine."
Juan Ramón Jiménez
R
"Poetry is the voice of those who cannot speak."
Rafael Alberti
R
"Art without passion is merely decoration."
Rafael Alberti
R
"The artist's burden is to make invisible things visible."
Rafael Alberti