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"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

Vladimir Nabokov 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 Vladimir Nabokov

  • "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

  • "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

  • "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

  • "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

  • "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

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