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