Famous Quotes

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

James Joyce 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 James Joyce

• "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

• "I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

• "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

• "I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."

• "Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."