The art speaks to a sense of timelessness and great achievement.
Private art speaks more quietly; it is less absolute, easier to live with.
Shouldn't art speak to something larger than its own limitations?
Often it is better to let the art speak for itself.
The implication is that his art speaks for itself.
The art can very well speak for itself.
On the other hand, art like this speaks for itself.
Robert Menzies once remarked that great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand.
If art could speak for its owners, that is what 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings might say.
Official art, in real life, rarely speaks truth to power.