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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”