Famous Quotes

"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one."

Charles Horton Cooley 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 Horton Cooley

• "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."

• "Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God."

• "Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

• "So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

• "Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."