Famous Quotes

"Art is the objectification of feeling."

Herman Melville 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 Herman Melville

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

• "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."