Famous Quotes

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."

Benjamin Franklin 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 Benjamin Franklin

• "At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment."

• "To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

• "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

• "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

• "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."