Famous Quotes

"It's clever, but is it Art?"

Rudyard Kipling 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 Rudyard Kipling

• "He travels the fastest who travels alone."

• "Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

• "And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

• "San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

• "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."