Famous Quotes

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."

Gwendolyn Brooks 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 Gwendolyn Brooks

• "A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."

• "Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."

• "When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."

• "Poetry is life distilled."