Famous Quotes

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Frank Lloyd Wright

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

• "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

• "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

• "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."