Famous Quotes

"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."

Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Friedrich Nietzsche

• "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

• "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

• "The doer alone learneth."

• "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

• "We have art in order not to die of the truth."