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There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens on architecture

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
George Lamming on architecture

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso on art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde on art

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill on art

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on art

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde on art

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton on art

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on art

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde on art

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus on art

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau on art

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler on art

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran on art