Aesthetic Quote by Leonard Bernstein

“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“The highest art is that which awakens our dormant will-force, and nerves us to face the trials of life manfully. All that brings drowsiness…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured…

— Henry James

“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all.…

— Claudia Gray

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...

— Alfred North Whitehead

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“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

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence…

— Walter Benjamin

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

— Raphael Soyer

There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather,…

— Ralph Lauren

“The art lies in setting the inner life into the most violent motion with the smallest possible expenditure of outer life; for it is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer