Famous Quotes

"All good art is an indiscretion."

Tennessee Williams 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 Tennessee Williams

• "We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

• "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

• "Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."

• "Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."

• "Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."