Famous Quotes

"To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy."

Will Durant 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 Will Durant

• "In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

• "There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure."

• "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."

• "We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."

• "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."