Art Quotes

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

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"Art warms the cold, stirs the wind, cheers the unhappy."
Virgil
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"Art transcends the boundaries of language."
Virgil
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"Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing."
Homer
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"The shield of Achilles was great and strong, with images of all things upon it."
Homer
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"The beauty of nature speaks to those with ears to hear."
Dante Alighieri
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"Art is the language of the eternal."
Dante Alighieri
"Art is the mirror held up to humanity's eternal nature."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Art transcends the boundaries of time and speaks to all generations."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Ovid
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"The art of living well is the greatest art of all."
Ovid
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"The poet's eye sees all things as they truly are."
John Milton
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"Artistic expression is the soul speaking without words."
John Milton
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"Art is concerned with the reproduction of appearances."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The greatest respect an artist can pay to public taste is to defy it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"To create beauty is to understand the divine."
Virgil
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"In art lies the immortality of the human spirit."
Virgil
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"The art of living well is learning to let go."
Homer
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"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing"
Dante Alighieri
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"The poet sees what others merely look at"
Dante Alighieri
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pickering Edward
"Art is the mirror in which the soul beholds itself."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Art outlives kingdoms and empires, touching eternity."
Ovid
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"Art is the bridge between the visible and invisible worlds."
Ovid
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"The beauty of the night sky inspires both wonder and scientific inquiry."
Henrietta Leavitt
"The beauty of astronomy lies in its precise mathematical language."
Annie Jump Cannon
"The night sky is a symphony of light and gravity."
Annie Jump Cannon
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"The artist must have something to say, for art has nothing to say."
Virgil
"Art imitates life, and life imitates art."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Art is the language of the soul."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The lyre in the hands of a master creates beauty that moves the soul."
Homer