Famous Quotes

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

Arthur Schopenhauer on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

• "There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

• "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

• "To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

• "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

• "Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head."