Art Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image “Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Life Men Personal life Universal life
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of not seeming real enough . We have a need, however illusive, for a life that is more real than life. It lies in the imagination. Fiction would seem to be the way it is processed into… — Wright Morris Copy Share
The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
