Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Art Quotations

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens.

These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.