Art Quotes

"The moment of creation is also the moment of destruction."

"To create art is to strip the soul bare."

"Art is long, and time is fleeting."

"Art makes life, makes interest, makes importance."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"Art reveals what words cannot express."

"I never knew a critic who was not an ass."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant; it will forgive anything except genius."

"The art of living well is the art of knowing when to hold fast and when to release."

"Art is the language of the spirit made visible."

"Art gives form to the formless yearnings of the soul."

"The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together."

"I write what I feel, and I feel truly."

"The artist reveals what others are afraid to see."

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travelled to heaven is no artist."

"Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death."

"There can be no Art without Unceasing Attention to Particular Form."

"Poetry Painting & Music are the three powers in man of conversing with Paradise."

"Art is the expression of the soul made visible."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"Art is the voice of those who cannot otherwise be heard."

"Art is the means by which we communicate across the gulf of individual experience."

"Beauty is a grave and powerful thing."

"The stage is a mirror held up to society."

"The stage allows us to speak truths that society forbids."

"Art captures what mere words can only approximate."

"Criticism is the art of disliking things."

"The sublime is always accompanied by a kind of terror."

"Art expresses what the heart feels but words cannot convey."

"Art speaks where words find themselves insufficient."