Art Quotes

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

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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Nolan, Daniel
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"In the art of reasoning, precision is beauty."
Beall, Jc
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"Formal logic is the poetry of reason."
Beall, Jc
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"Art is the soul's conversation with the world."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Art without emotion is merely decoration."
Balaguer, Mark
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"Art is the expression of what words cannot capture."
Mares, Edwin
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"The artist sees what others have overlooked."
Mares, Edwin
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"Art is the language we use when words fail us completely."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Art is the immortal voice of the temporary."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Art succeeds where logic fails to capture human experience."
Priest, Graham
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"To create is to participate in the divine."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Art is the most direct way to speak the unspeakable."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Art exists in the space between intention and interpretation."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Art is the conversation between the artist's inner world and yours."
Nolan, Daniel
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"Formal systems are beautiful precisely because they are limited."
Beall, Jc
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"Art is the language the soul speaks when words fail."
Mares, Edwin
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"Art survives not because it is beautiful, but because it is necessary."
Mares, Edwin
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"Meaning is not found; it is constructed through careful reasoning."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Reason is the art of making our thoughts visible."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Language is both our mirror and our window."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Meaning is constructed, not discovered, in the spaces between things."
Priest, Graham
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"To create is to impose order on chaos, however temporarily."
Priest, Graham
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"Art holds truths that logic cannot grasp."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Art is the language of the parts of us that words cannot reach."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Art is the language that speaks when words fail us."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Art is the testimony of souls seeking to transcend their mortality."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Smith, Barry
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Smith, Barry