Art Quotes

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

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"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced"
Natasha Rostova
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art"
Mustapha Mond
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"Art and nature reveal to us the divine order of the universe."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Art, science—you seem to have paid a fairly high price for stability."
John the Savage
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"All the world's a stage, but they've scripted every line."
John the Savage
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"Art is the soul of civilization made visible"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"What you need is something with tears for a change."
Bernard Marx
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond
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"I hate the movies. Don't even mention it. It really does."
Holden Caulfield
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"I hate actors. They really do kill me."
Holden Caulfield
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"I hate theater anyway. I really do."
Holden Caulfield
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"Pneumatic women and scent-organs instead of art."
John the Savage
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond
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"Art, science—you seem to forget they're just hobbies."
Mustapha Mond
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"I hadn't realized that the Savage had no ear for music."
Lenina Crowne
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"You can't make tragedies without social instability."
Mustapha Mond
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"It's very corny, but I love it anyway."
Holden Caulfield
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"It really was a masterpiece, I'm not kidding."
Holden Caulfield
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"Comfort and culture aren't compatible"
Mustapha Mond
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"But we've sacrificed Shakespeare"
John the Savage
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"You can't play Electra with a chorus of hundreds of lawyers"
Mustapha Mond
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"I really enjoyed the play."
Sally Hayes
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art."
Mustapha Mond
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"I hate the movies like poison, but I get to looking at them anyway."
Holden Caulfield
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"Satisfactory rhyming couplets, I'm afraid. Quite adequate doggerel."
Mustapha Mond
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"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her."
Professor Faber
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"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her."
Professor Faber
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"A voice! It was genuine, it was profound"
Marlow