Famous Quotes

"Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them."

Blaise Pascal 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 Blaise Pascal

• "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

• "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

• "It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

• "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

• "Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care."