Famous Quotes

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 Isaac Bashevis Singer

• "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

• "The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

• "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

• "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

• "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."