Art Quotes

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

21093 quotes

D
"The sky was the color of suffering."
Death
J
"Art without passion is merely decoration."
Julián Carax
B
"The problem these fifty-nine years is my attempt to perfect the truth, to achieve through the written word the precision of a moment, to render the every flicker visible."
Briony Tallis
B
"The past could only be redeemed through the perfection of its retelling."
Briony Tallis
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"I love the smell of book paper."
Liesel Meminger
D
"She loved the smell of the paper and the weight of the pages."
Death
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"Art survives even in the darkest times."
Marie-Laure
M
"The beauty of magic is that it requires no explanation, only acceptance."
Melquiades
C
"My weaving is my truth, my spell, my salvation."
Circe
D
"She loved the smell of the library."
Death
M
"Art exists to prove we were here."
Marie-Laure
C
"My craft was a language only I could speak."
Circe
G
"Macondo was painted yellow."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"My potions were my first language"
Circe
C
"I wove stories into the cloth to make them real"
Circe
D
"The basement became their sanctuary, a place where stories mattered more than bombs."
Death
G
"She moved with the grace of someone who had learned to walk on water."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She danced as if the music were a part of her very being, inseparable and eternal."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"Art was my salvation"
Circe
D
"A small but noteworthy note about swing music."
Death
C
"The loom shows what the mind cannot see"
Circe
C
"There is magic in the space between silence and speech"
Circe
G
"She wove her final designs with threads of gold and silver."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"Witchcraft is the art of listening to the earth."
Circe
C
"My art was my rebellion."
Circe
B
"A poet and a madman differ in their accounting of words."
Bast
S
"Art is truth revealed."
Shallan Davar
S
"Art is a reflection of the soul."
Shallan Davar
S
"Words have power beyond measure."
Shallan Davar
S
"Art is the voice of the voiceless."
Shallan Davar