Famous Quotes

"Translation is the art of failure."

Umberto Eco 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 Umberto Eco

• "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

• "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."

• "The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

• "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."

• "There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past."