Ruth Bernhard Quotes

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

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

I'm an artist at heart.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

There’s a lot of power in a little paint.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Without art there is no hope.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.