True Art Quotes

52 True Art quotes by 41 unique authors

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed. — Jose Bergamin
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. — Mahatma Gandhi
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you… — Carl Jung
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we… — Marcel Proust
He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.… — Brandon Sanderson
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first… — Marcel Proust
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E F Schumacher
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up!… — Derek R. Audette
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause… — Leo Tolstoy
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. — Michelangelo
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. — Albert Einstein
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. — Jerzy Kosinski
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. — Baz Luhrmann
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. — Madeleine L'Engle
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression… — Allen Ginsberg
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true… — Deborah Harkness

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