Famous Quotes

"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."

Robert Mapplethorpe 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 Robert Mapplethorpe

• "To make pictures big is to make them more powerful."

• "Beauty and the devil are the same thing."

• "I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied."

• "If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."

• "My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."