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Artist Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
- No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
- The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past…
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
- A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
- People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The…
- Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely…
- The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The…
- The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
- It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
- Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are…
- Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real…
- For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the…
- Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
- Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu