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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls -- Taylor Caldwell
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. -- Taylor Caldwell
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. -- Max Beerbohm
The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul. -- Richard Jefferies
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -- Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -- Pablo Picasso
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. -- Theodore Dreiser
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Francis Bacon
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. -- George Bernard Shaw
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. -- Iris Murdoch
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. -- Robert Redford
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. -- John Ruskin
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. -- Kathy Mattea
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. -- Susan Vreeland
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. -- Richard MacDonald
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. -- Bill Viola
When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul. -- Debbie Ford
Art is the soul of a people. -- Romare Bearden
Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul. -- Michael Gungor
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul. -- Pablo Picasso
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. -- Henry Moore
A nation's art is the expression of its soul. -- Marvin Bell
In my inner soul art and life are inseparable. -- Eva Hesse
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. -- Marcus Aurelius
Making art in America is about saving one's soul. -- Charles Simic
Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart. -- Ana Tzarev
Art is the expression of the artistÂ´s overflowing soul. -- Hans Hofmann
A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul. -- Camille Paglia
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. -- Thomas Merton
I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul. -- Kay WalkingStick
Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in. -- Martin Firrell
Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will. -- Shaun McNiff
All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. -- Marc Chagall
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. -- Edward Abbey
From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. -- Bruce Lee
Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul. -- Howard Pyle
You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul. -- Bruce Lee
Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul. -- Julie Garwood
Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul. -- Chris Tomlin
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. -- John F. Kennedy
Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. -- Martha Graham
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. -- Amit Ray
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. -- Alexander Pope
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul. -- Amit Ray
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. -- Seth Godin
A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast. -- Alfred Brendel
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. -- Terence McKenna
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. -- Friedrich Schiller
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists. -- Criss Jami
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. -- Aberjhani
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? -- Jonathan Hull
Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. -- Edward J. Fraughton
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. -- Amanda Palmer
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. -- Sergei Bongart
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. -- Auguste Rodin
The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. -- Alfred North Whitehead
At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. -- Rob Ryser
Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul. -- Manprit Kaur
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart -- Alexander Pope
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. -- Tilda Swinton
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul -- Albert Camus
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. -- Henry David Thoreau
The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. -- Willa Cather
To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark. -- Patricia Briggs
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever. -- Julie Andrews
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. -- Robert Genn
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. -- Alan Sillitoe
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. -- Barbara Mason
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. -- Aberjhani
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. -- Fernando Pessoa
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. -- Robert Genn
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! -- Joseph Addison
Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do. -- Buck Brannaman
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul. -- Ben Whishaw
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. -- Shirley MacLaine
Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. -- Guru Arjan
Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul. -- Daria Halprin
If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it. -- Leila Sales
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. -- Ingmar Bergman
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. -- Marc Chagall
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. -- John Ruskin
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. -- Tiffany Madison
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. -- Miguel de Molinos
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains. -- Thomas Merton
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion. -- William Wordsworth
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul. -- Alice Duer Miller
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. -- Leo Tolstoy
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' -- Michael Leunig
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. -- Rachel Kushner
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart. -- Kelsey Grammer
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair. -- Robert Kennedy
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. -- Herman Hesse
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. -- Herman Hesse
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. -- Catherine Deneuve
Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul. -- Hans Hofmann
You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul. -- Wayne Dyer
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe. -- Marc Chagall

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