Famous Quotes

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

Sarah Bernhardt 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 Sarah Bernhardt

• "He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

• "What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

• "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions."

• "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."

• "Legend remains victorious in spite of history."