21st Century Art Gallery

Beauty is the resplendence of the truth. -Antoni Gaudi

Art is the highest form of hope. -Gerhard Richter

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness. -Joris-Karl Huysmans

If we ignore the need of beauty, we find ourselves in a spiritual desert. -Roger Scruton

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -Plutarch

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. -Schumann

Art is not a thing; it is a way. -Elbert Hubbard

Our feeling for beauty is a spiritual and not a sensual emotion. -Roger Scruton

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new. -Saint Augustine