Famous Quotes

"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."

Marcel Proust 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 Marcel Proust

• "Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces."

• "It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."

• "A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves."

• "Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two."

• "A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it."