Art Quotes

"Art expresses what cannot be said in words; it is the language of the soul."

"The artwork achieves its power by expressing what the artist could not have fully known in advance."

"A metaphor is a sign which in a different form, something similar to the thing meant."

"Art ought to enrich the world with a new kind of character."

"To dwell poetically means to measure and to build by the poetic."

"Art is the origin of truth and the setting-into-work of truth."

"A work of art opens a world and keeps it open."

"Being manifests itself through the work of art."

"The task of art is to struggle with the concealment of truth."

"Art and poetry preserve what technology threatens to destroy."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, himself."

"The greatest art is to hide art."

"Art is the ability to make life more interesting than art."

"Art celebrates with peculiar intensity the moments in which the past reinforces the present and opens to a rich and organized future."

"Art is not the possession of the few who are professionally engaged in producing beauty, but a continuous process of living."

"Art is the language through which we share our deepest human experiences."

"Language is not something that can be separated from the human world."

"Art is the activity most opposed to materialism."

"Poetry and art reveal truths about human existence that logical analysis alone cannot capture."

"Culture is the embodiment of the human spirit across generations."

"Art and literature preserve what is most vital in human experience."

"Art is the medium through which humanity understands itself most deeply."

"In art and literature, humanity sees itself most truly."

"Through art, individuals touch what is universal in human experience."

"Art is the language through which the human spirit speaks most directly to itself."

"A work of art is not determined by bringing beauty into existence."

"A picture is laid against reality like a measure."

"Aesthetic problems are independent of the facts."

"Art and science are the twin pillars of civilization."

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