Art Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about art.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Music expresses what cannot be said with words but cannot remain silent.

Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro

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Ten glances to see the beauty that unfolds between a dream and a catastrophe.

James Gibbons Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker

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The critic is a man who expects miracles.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Technological progress has only provided us with more efficient means to go backwards.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Imagination is generous and selfless; intelligence calculates and clings to whatever it can.

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Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Beauty is the harmony between content and form.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Big or small, every man is a poet if he knows how to see the ideal, beyond his actions.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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What is beauty? A convention, a currency that circulates in a time and in a place.

José Ingenieros

José Ingenieros

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Imagination and experience go hand in hand. They don't go alone.

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Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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An idea is true when it has not yet been imposed.

Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco

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If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve a purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that serve no purpose and that it is essential for them to exist.

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Karl Theodor Jaspers

Karl Theodor Jaspers

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To philosophize is and only is to learn how to die.