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Artists 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
- The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those…
- Bad artists always admire each others work.
- I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
- God and other artists are always a little obscure.....
- She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got…
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- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono
- The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono