Art Quotes

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

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"Art transcends the boundaries of faith and reason."
Robert Langdon
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"Art speaks where words cannot."
Sophie Neveu
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"The symbol is the bridge between the visible and invisible worlds."
Robert Langdon
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"Art exists where rules are understood and transcended"
Shevek
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"Art is resistance against conformity"
Takver
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"Your body is the harp of your soul, and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"I draw boa constrictors from the inside and outside"
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"He alone is great who turned the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Drawing is another language. It is the language of those who are unable to speak."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Drawing brings me to language."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Art consists not in rendering reality but in stimulating the imagination to conceive of it."
Seneca
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"Art is born when the human being articulates his yearning for something beyond himself."
Zarathustra
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"Drawing pictures is not my forte, but I would love to share my thoughts through these images."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Drawing is another language"
The Little Prince
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"Suffering is the price of passion and creation."
Zarathustra
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"Candy making is one of the finest of all the arts."
Willy Wonka
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"Art is found in the most unexpected places."
Willy Wonka
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"We have art lest we perish from the truth."
Zarathustra
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"It's simply gorgeous to see how this month just flies into poetry."
Anne Shirley
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"I can repeat poetry as well as other folk"
Humpty Dumpty
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"I like a movie with a little action and a little romance."
Johnny Cade
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"The camera loves liars. I was very good at lying."
Evelyn Hugo
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"That's a lovely word—ethereal. It sounds like a sigh translated into sound."
Anne Shirley
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"Art and science are not opposites but complementary ways of understanding."
King Azaz
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"The camera doesn't see you; it sees what you want it to see."
Evelyn Hugo
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"The woman people saw on screen was a carefully constructed fiction."
Evelyn Hugo
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"The greatest performance of my life was pretending I was okay with all of it."
Evelyn Hugo
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"The music was worth everything"
Graham Dunne
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"The music never lied"
Daisy Jones
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"The stage was the only place I felt truly alive"
Daisy Jones