Art Quotes

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

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"Art is the avenue to truth through feeling."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The artist and scientist are both seekers of truth."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Art reveals what nature conceals from ordinary observation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The beauty of a work of art lies in its capacity to move the spirit."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Art is the expression of inner life made visible."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Art is the process whereby the finite mind expresses the infinite."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Culture is the expression of human spirit."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Art must serve the moral improvement of mankind."
Comte, Auguste
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"Art indeed is a method of concentrated attention."
James, William
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"Poetry is the region in which is concentrated the secret, the principle of beauty."
James, William
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"Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists."
Dewey, John
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"The development of art in schools is not a frill, but a fundamental necessity."
Dewey, John
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"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The aesthetic sentiment is not a luxury but a necessity."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Art is the memory of mankind."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Art is the highest expression of human consciousness."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The function of art is to imitate nature."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal beverage of humanity."
Marx, Karl
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"Art forms reflect the class structure of their times."
Marx, Karl
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"Art serves society by refining the emotions and the intellect."
Comte, Auguste
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"Art elevates the soul when it expresses universal human sentiments."
Comte, Auguste
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"I am as convinced as I am of any conclusion I ever arrive at regarding the claims of art."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Art is the expression of the human spirit in sensible form."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The artist is the visionary who shows us what we are capable of becoming."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"A artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Art is the great stimulus to life."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"We should talk less and draw more."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"We have art lest we perish from the truth."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The most universal principle of art is that some things should be dark so that others may be bright."
James, William
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"Aesthetic emotion is the power to feel what another person has felt, rendered permanent in objective form."
James, William