Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The price of clarity is often the loss of a certain kind of poetry."Montague, Richard
"The gap between what we think and what we can express is where poetry lives."Montague, Richard
"In formal systems, beauty and correctness are often one and the same."Montague, Richard
"The beauty of logical systems is that they are merciless in their consistency."Montague, Richard
"In art, as in life, the greatest works often emerge from our deepest struggles."Smith, Barry
"Art challenges us to see the world through unfamiliar eyes."Smith, Barry
"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."Wittgenstein, Richard
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."Wittgenstein, Richard
"Art is not the representation of beautiful things."Wittgenstein, Richard
"The human form is the best introduction to the study of the human soul."Wittgenstein, Richard
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."Perry, John
"Art and literature preserve what power structures attempt to erase."Chomsky, Noam
"Art expresses what systematic rationality cannot fully capture."Chomsky, Noam
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Burge, Tyler
"Art is the expression of the soul."Burge, Tyler
"Ambiguity is not a flaw of language but a feature of human expression."Katz, Jerrold
"The unspeakable remains real; language merely captures its shadows."Katz, Jerrold
"Every metaphor teaches something true even as it distorts something real."Katz, Jerrold
"We create meaning through the careful arrangement of symbols and signs."Montague, Richard
"Language is the tool by which we sculpt understanding from raw experience."Montague, Richard
"The infinite complexity of reality can be captured, though never exhausted, by language."Montague, Richard
"In logic we find the skeleton of thought; in poetry we find its flesh."Montague, Richard
"Art is the language we speak when ordinary words fail us."Kaplan, David
"Art challenges us to see the world not as it is, but as it could be."Kaplan, David
"Art is the conversation between the soul of the creator and the soul of the observer."Perry, John
"Art exists to make the invisible visible and the unsayable speakable."Perry, John
"Art mirrors the complexity of human consciousness."Fine, Kit
"Art captures what description cannot."Fine, Kit
"Art is the visible manifestation of invisible truths."Burge, Tyler
"A picture is a fact. What we see in a picture is what the picture shows us."Wittgenstein, Richard