Ayn Rand Quotes About Art

• Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Men, Fire

• You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Faith, Art

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.472, Penguin

• Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Reality, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.60, Penguin

• The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Writing, Simple

• That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Life Is, Contemplation

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.485, Penguin

• Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Communication, Moral

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.62, Penguin

• Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Intelligent, Attractive

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