Famous Quotes

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

Oscar Wilde 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 Oscar Wilde

• "No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

• "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

• "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

• "I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."