Famous Quotes

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

Paul Getty 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 Paul Getty

• "My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

• "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

• "Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

• "A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."

• "I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."