Winston Churchill Quotes About Art

• Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, People, Way

• The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Race, Age

  "Churchill: The Statesman as Artist". Book by David Cannadine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

• This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings

  "Thoughts and Adventures".

• I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Art, Reality

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Book, Fall

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Air, Appreciate

• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

• Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

  Winston Churchill

  Happiness, Art, Wonderful

  Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

• Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Honesty, Honor

• Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Giving, Diplomacy

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