Art Quotes

"We have art so that we shall not perish from the truth."

"Art is the production of a thing as a purpose in itself."

"Art is the effort of man to express the perception of the universe in a permanent form."

"Art is the means of expressing the intellectual and emotional content of human experience."

"Art serves to express what cannot be expressed in words."

"Aesthetic experience reveals the underlying unity of reality."

"The goal of art is the realization of beauty in form."

"Art reveals truths about human experience that pure reason alone cannot capture."

"All the arts are subservient to the art of living well."

"Art is not nature, but rather a creation of the human imagination."

"The cultivation of the arts and sciences is the glory of a nation."

"Art is the means of making visible the invisible."

"Art without emotion is merely decoration."

"Art is the presentation of the infinite in finite form."

"Beauty arises when we perceive purposiveness without a purpose."

"The beauty of nature teaches us truths that words cannot express."

"The refinement of taste requires both education and moral development."

"Every genius is necessarily naive and simple."

"Art is the justification of existence."

"Art is supposed to make you think, not just look."

"We should talk less and draw more."

"The artist has a responsibility to push humanity forward."

"We have art lest we perish from the truth."

"Art itself is a kind of truth-telling, but of a different order than philosophy."

"Art must copy nature, but it must copy her thoughtfully."

"Art is the expression of the soul's deepest convictions."

"There is an art to every useful thing."

"Art imitates nature by following its rules."

"Art elevates the human spirit."

"Architecture should express the structure it conceals."