Famous Quotes

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

George Santayana 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 Santayana

• "The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age."

• "Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."

• "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

• "It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."

• "The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art."