Quotes about Art
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour--that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
— Oscar Wilde
The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.
— Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
— Oscar Wilde
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
— Oscar Wilde
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies. The justification of a character in a novel is not that other persons are what they are, but that the author is what he is. Otherwise the novel is not a work of art.
— Oscar Wilde
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
— Oscar Wilde
We live in a world when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
— Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
— Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
— Oscar Wilde
The more abstract, the more ideal an art is, the more it reveals to us the temper of its age. If we wish to understand a nation by means of its art, let us look at its architecture or its music.
— Oscar Wilde
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.
— Oscar Wilde
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.
— Oscar Wilde