Art Quotes

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

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"The body can be understood as a map of intensities and potentials."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Law, John
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Law, John
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"The body speaks languages that words cannot capture; we must learn to listen."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The political potentiality of art lies in its ability to imagine alternative possibilities."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"The body is not something we have but something we do; it is fundamentally performative."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Art and science are not opposed; they are kindred practices of world-making."
Latour, Bruno
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"Objects are ambassadors from invisible worlds."
Latour, Bruno
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"Art is a way of making the invisible visible."
Latour, Bruno
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"Performance is not something added to an essence; performance is how things come to be."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Art requires the permission to waste time."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Art reflects the soul of civilization."
Law, John
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"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."
Law, John
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"Art is a form of resistance."
hooks, bell
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"Art speaks truth that words cannot."
hooks, bell
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"Beauty exists in struggle."
hooks, bell
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"Performance is not deception; it is the substance of reality."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The body is a text written by many hands."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Care is an art form that resists complete systematization."
Mol, Annemarie
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"Art can help us understand and transform the world."
Davis, Angela
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"Art is a means of resistance and transformation."
Davis, Angela
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"Art provides a way to imagine liberation."
Davis, Angela
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"Objects speak to us if we learn to listen to their associations and histories"
Latour, Bruno
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"Art is a form of liberation."
Wittig, Monique
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Wittig, Monique
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"Art is truth-telling."
Wittig, Monique
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"Words make worlds."
Wittig, Monique
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"Art embodies resistance."
Wittig, Monique
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"The authentic emerges from the friction between translations"
Callon, Michel
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"Art survives not because it is efficient, but because it resonates with something true in us."
Hartmut, Rosa