Famous Quotes

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

Horace Walpole 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 Horace Walpole

• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

• "I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."