Famous Quotes

"Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern."

R. Buckminster Fuller 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 R. Buckminster Fuller

• "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

• "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

• "I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

• "Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

• "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."