Famous Quotes

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus 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 Albert Camus

• "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

• "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

• "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."