Famous Quotes

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

Paul Valery 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 Valery

• "God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

• "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

• "Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

• "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

• "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."