Art Quotes

"Art reminds us of what we could become."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty."

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

"Art is the cry of the soul trying to communicate with itself."

"Art holds up a mirror to society and shows what we dare not see."

"Art is the effort of man to express his consciousness of the world."

"Art without passion is merely technical exercise."

"The sense of beauty is the sense of significance, and art is the exploitation of that sense."

"The true object of tragedy is to excite pity and fear, but also to purify the mind through aesthetic experience."

"Art challenges us to see familiar things with renewed attention and care."

"Mathematics is the lowest rung of the ladder of beauty."

"Art is the highest form of knowledge."

"Art teaches us to see with the eyes of the soul."

"Art reveals what reason cannot."

"Art is the transformation of experience into meaning."

"Art reveals dimensions of human experience that purely theoretical discourse cannot reach."

"Art is one of the ways in which we express what cannot be said in ordinary language."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"The essence of art is the transformation of experience into expression."

"The miracle of language is not that it represents reality, but that it creates forms of life."

"The meaning of a picture is its use in the language game of life."

"Method without devotion is mere technique."

"Every authentic work of art contains a fragment of truth."

"Art is the human rebellion against the meaninglessness of existence."

"Art exists not to decorate walls, but to decorate the soul."

"Art arises from the human need to express what cannot be contained in reason alone."

"Art is the language of what transcends language."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty."

"Art is the proof that life is not enough, that human nature requires beauty."