Art Quotes

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

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"A network's job is to make money. An artist's job is to make meaning."
Jack Rudolph
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"Art is the question, not the answer."
Jack Rudolph
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"Art is the expression of the soul without words."
Eddie
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"Art matters. Entertainment matters. Making people feel something matters."
Danny Tripp
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"I believe in the power of a good story to change how people see the world."
Tom Jeter
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"The hardest part of this job isn't the writing—it's the honesty."
Tom Jeter
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"I believe we have an obligation to be funny AND smart."
Tom Jeter
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"The best writing comes from the places that scare you most."
Tom Jeter
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"Art is what people call things when they don't understand them."
Roz Doyle
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"Art should challenge us, provoke us, make us think differently about the world."
Harriet Hayes
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Harriet Hayes
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Bebe Glazer
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"Art is the antidote to a mundane life."
Bebe Glazer
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"I have elevated avoidance to an art form."
Maris Crane
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"I've mastered the art of meaningful silence."
Maris Crane
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"I consider myself a masterpiece of refined dysfunction."
Maris Crane
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"Art is just another way of saying what you really feel inside."
Bulldog Briscoe
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"Art is the only proof that humans aren't completely rotten."
Bulldog Briscoe
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"Art is how we speak what words cannot."
Eddie
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"Art is the voice of what we cannot otherwise express."
Eddie
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"Art requires vulnerability. You have to be willing to be exposed."
Danny Tripp
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"A good story can change how someone sees the world."
Danny Tripp
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"Art is how we make sense of the world and ourselves."
Danny Tripp
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"Art is what keeps humanity from being purely mechanical."
Roz Doyle
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"Art is the voice of the voiceless."
Roz Doyle
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"We're in the business of putting on a show. That's what we do. We make people laugh, we make them think, and sometimes, if we're lucky, we make them feel something real."
Jack Rudolph
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"Art is what happens when you care more about truth than comfort."
Jack Rudolph
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"Art isn't decoration. It's a mirror we hold up to ourselves."
Harriet Hayes
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"Art is the work of making invisible things visible."
Harriet Hayes
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"Art speaks to the soul in ways that words simply cannot."
Daphne Moon