Famous Quotes

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."

John Keats 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 John Keats

• "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

• "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

• "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

• "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."

• "With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."