"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."

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"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."

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"There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat."

Mario Batali, American Celebrity

Art, Battle, Customer

"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."

Maya Lin, American Architect

Art, Artist, Day

"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Art, Language

"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Poetry, Expression, Self, Communication

"I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist."

Kim Weston, American Photographer

Art, Artist

"The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Art, Eye, Quick

"We want to raise the art of living well."

Robert Mondavi, American Businessman

Art, Living, Want

"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that."

H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

Art, Mystery

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

Art,

"A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Art, Film, Transformation, Emotion

Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."

Age, Work, People, Doubt

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."

Creativity, Ideas, Artist

"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."

Work, Darkness, First

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."

Time, Books

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

Love,

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

Architecture,

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

Poor, Property, Right

"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Power, Successful, Effort, Temperament

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish."

Being, Fish