Famous Quotes

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."

Clara Schumann 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 Clara Schumann

• "I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand."

• "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."

• "My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?"

• "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."