Rudyard Kipling Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• It's clever, but is it Art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Clever

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops"

• And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Rude, Joy

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Conundrum of the Workshops"

• No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Horse, Military

  "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling: All novels, short stories, letters and poems".

• Ah! What avails the classic bent
  And what the cultured word,
  Against the undoctored incident
  That actually occurred?
  And what is Art whereto we press
  Through paint and prose and rhyme-
  When Nature in her nakedness
  Defeats us every time?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Art, Real, Classic

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

• Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sister, Dog, Art

  Actions and Reactions (1909) "The Power of the Dog"

• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Art, Horse

  'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

• And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
  But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
  Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They
  are!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Money, Art, Stars

  "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted" l. 9 (1892)

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