Art Quotes

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

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"Art is the permanent rebellion against the temporary world."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Every painting is a dialogue between the artist and the canvas."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art is the language of those too beautiful for words."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The artist's greatest gift is the ability to see the invisible."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art demands we sacrifice our illusions for truth."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The greatest art emerges from the greatest suffering."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art is the voice of those whom society has silenced."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The world needs artists more than it realizes."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art is rebellion against the ordinary."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art is the permanent protest against death."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The artist is a translator of invisible worlds."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art exists to transform pain into beauty."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"To be forgotten is the artist's greatest fear and deepest wish."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"In art, failure is merely another form of success."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Art is the attempt to capture the infinite in finite form."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Art is the voice of the soul."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."
Robert Browning
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"Art is the activity by which we introduce something completely new into the world."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Art reflects the deepest truths of human existence."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Writing is my way of adjusting my life to the world around me."
August Strindberg
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
August Strindberg
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"Art is a beautiful deception."
August Strindberg
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Art is a very demanding mistress."
Henrik Ibsen
"Art is the mirror of the human condition."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Art is the language of the soul when words fail."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Art is the conversation between the soul and eternity."
Hans Christian Andersen