Famous Quotes

"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."

Toni Morrison 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 Toni Morrison

• "You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

• "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."

• "There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

• "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."

• "I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."