Famous Quotes

"What is art? Prostitution."

Charles Baudelaire 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 Charles Baudelaire

• "Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art."

• "To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."

• "A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else."

• "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art."

• "Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."