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