Famous Quotes

"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

William Ralph Inge 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 William Ralph Inge

• "Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."

• "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

• "True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

• "The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."

• "Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."