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