Famous Quotes

"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."

W. H. Auden 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 W. H. Auden

• "Now is the age of anxiety."

• "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

• "'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

• "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

• "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."