Famous Quotes

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All diseases run into one, old age."

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

• "Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding."

• "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

• "Every artist was first an amateur."