Famous Quotes

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

Virginia Woolf 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 Virginia Woolf

• "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

• "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

• "For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

• "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

• "When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."