Art Quote by Amit Chaudhuri

“So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession…

— C. V. Raman

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings.…

— Sayani Gupta

“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects,…

— W.B. Yeats

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

— Henry James

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

“As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the…

— Alexander Frater

“The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag