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Artistic Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
- Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance,…
- Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to…
- If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment.…
- The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
More Artistic Quotes
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- 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
- My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do… — Javier Bardem
- I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever… — Jack Black
- The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good… — William Blake
- Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think… — Andrea Bocelli
- Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular… — Andrea Bocelli
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,… — Napoleon Bonaparte