Famous Quotes

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw

• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

• "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

• "You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul."