Art Quote by John Ruskin

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more…

— John Ruskin

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

— Doris Salcedo

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much…

— Ursula Goodenough

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is…

— Philip Graham Ryken

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

— Claude Debussy

There is something we know thats connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore…

— Anonymous

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

— John McCormack