Famous Quotes

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

Claude Monet 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 Claude Monet

• "People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

• "My life has been nothing but a failure."

• "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

• "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."