Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Art

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Mahatma Gandhi

Uplifting, Art, Passion

Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

Art to be art must soothe.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.64, Rajpal & Sons

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Beautiful, Art, Mind

Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.181, Grove Press

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Intelligent, Events

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Children, Writing

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, People, Obedience

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, People, Obedience

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

Life is greater than all art.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Art, Life Is

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Self, Soul

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Life Is, Purity

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Mean, Sacrifice

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Organization, Nations

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Order, Giving

Mahatma Gandhi (1997). “The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941”, National Book Trust India

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiring, Art, Inspirational Life

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.76, Oxford University Press

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Lying, Form

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Mahatma Gandhi

Education, Art, Children

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Training, Dying

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Contentment, Purity

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Reading, Religion

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Joy, Spinning

Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Art, Training

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.184, Courier Corporation

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Voice, Life Is

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Speaks Out, Needs

Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art, Eye, Machines

Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”