Famous Quotes

"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."

Charles Bukowski 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 Charles Bukowski

• "I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."

• "Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

• "Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

• "We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."

• "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."