Famous Quotes

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 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 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• "Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

• "Less is more."

• "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

• "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

• "True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."