Jacques Maritain Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Art is significant deformity.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Art is all in the details.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Art is science in the flesh.

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

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

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.