Art Speaks Quotes

#1. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

Francis Chan

#2. Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting

Edouard Vuillard

#3. All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Iris Murdoch

#4. Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

Ana Tzarev

#5. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...

George Sand

#7. "I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples. My art speaks for both my peoples" ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Melanie Anne Herzog

#8. My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

Norval Morrisseau

#9. All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

Albert Schweitzer

#10. After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.

Jerry Saltz

#11. Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

Dana Gioia

#12. Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Hannah Harrington

#14. Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.

Eudora Welty

#15. Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#16. The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Franz Kafka

#17. Art is something about the spirit ... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it ... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.

Shary Boyle

#18. The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Hans Arp

#19. As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Pablo Picasso

#20. Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

Oprah Winfrey

#21. Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Eudora Welty

#22. Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge1

J. Scott McElroy

#23. The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Frank Griswold

#24. The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Scott Kahn

#25. Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

Jules Breton

#26. The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#27. All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#28. We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language if we ourselves were universal in our sympathies.

Okakura Kakuzo

#29. A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark.

Lilah Pace

#30. I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#31. What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Thomas Carlyle

#32. Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Brenda Ueland

#33. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#34. He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

Max Eastman

#35. In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel

#36. One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Andre Malraux

#37. Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ...

Gerard Van Der Leeuw