Ayn Rand Quotes about Art

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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.

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

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

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

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

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