The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

always, religious, art

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

Thomas Merton

ourselves, enables, art

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

Albert Camus

guilty, art, confession

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

always, alone, artist, art

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

Pablo Picasso

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

execute, higher, art

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

drawing, honesty, art

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

Albert Einstein

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

Oscar Wilde

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