True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

characterized, irresistible, art

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

Pablo Picasso

purpose, art, daily

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

Oscar Wilde

artist, things, really

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

Winston Churchill

tradition, art, innovation

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

Pablo Picasso

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

freedom, art lives, imposes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

aim, represent, appear, art

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

ourselves, enables, art

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

artist is somebody, people, art