Art Quotes

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment to distract from the tedium of life."

"Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd."

"Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on."

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

"The greatest thing by far is to be a poet."

"Art and intellect are independent forces in any civilization."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Art for art's sake is a perilous doctrine."

"Art captures what words cannot convey."

"Art is the language of dreams."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Art is the only truth we possess"

"The artist must suffer to create something worth seeing"

"Art is the activity most like prayer."

"Our life is not poetry, but it can be made poetical."

"Art is not to be taught in academies. It is what one learns in the woods by oneself."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Every artist wishes to share what they see, not what they have been taught to see."

"Art may tell a truth obliquely, drawing the soul with silence."

"Art is the soul of civilization made visible."

"When words fail, music speaks."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."

"The soul is healed by art."

"Art is the best commentary on human experience."

"Where words fail, there music and movement paint ten thousand truths."

"The art of living is the art of loving."

"Art emerges from the depths of human suffering."

"The soul speaks through art when words fail."

"The artist must sacrifice comfort for truth."

"Art is the soul speaking when society demands silence."