Art Quotes

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

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"Kitsch is the enemy of truth in art."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Aesthetic judgments are not cognitive claims about the world."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art without emotion is merely technical exercise."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art challenges our perceptions and expands our understanding."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art and science are both human responses to the unknown."
Popper, Karl
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"Esthetics cannot be taught; it can only be experienced."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art expresses what language cannot capture."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art captures truths that logic cannot express."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art expresses what cannot be put into words."
Popper, Karl
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"Art is the voice of what cannot be articulated in rational discourse."
Popper, Karl
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"Aesthetic judgments are expressions of personal preference, not universal truths."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Aesthetic appreciation is a subjective experience, not a cognitive judgment."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Aesthetic disagreement is not disagreement about facts but about preferences."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Beauty cannot be rationally debated; it can only be appreciated or dismissed."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Emotional responses to art are primary; critical judgments are secondary."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Poetry is the most innocent of all occupations."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Art is truth setting itself to work."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The origin of the work of art is art."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Poetry brings man and world into proximity."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Aesthetics and ethics are related and are both concerned with the limits of the world."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Art is the expression of what cannot be said in words."
Popper, Karl
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"Esthetic judgments are subjective expressions of personal preference."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Aesthetic experience is irreducible to moral or intellectual value."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Art is the setting-into-work of truth."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Poetry is the most innocent of all occupations."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The work of art opens up a world and keeps it open."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The struggle of being itself defines the essence of art."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Art is the becoming and happening of truth."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The work-being of the work is truth setting itself to work."
Heidegger, Martin