Famous Quotes

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age."

• "Age merely shows what children we remain."

• "The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

• "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

• "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."