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