Famous Quotes

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

Honore de Balzac 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 Honore de Balzac

• "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."

• "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."

• "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."

• "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."

• "What is art? Nature concentrated."