Famous Quotes

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

W. Somerset Maugham 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 W. Somerset Maugham

• "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

• "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

• "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

• "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."