Famous Quotes

"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

Rebecca West 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 Rebecca West

• "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."

• "Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

• "There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

• "It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."

• "There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."