Quotations on Art
Art is an effort to create, beside the world, a more human world.
-Andre Maurois
Art is the most intense mood of individualism that the world has known.
-Oscar Wilde
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharpe
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
-Alfred North Whitehead
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
-Stella Adler
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
-Anton Chekhov

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