That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“clothes displayed an artist’s infinite attention to details. He wished, as he descended the steps, that this were a” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Do you think integrity is the monopoly of the artist? And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
