Art Quote by Edgar Degas

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.”

— Edgar Degas

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.”

— Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.

— Oscar Wilde

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

— Samuel Smiles

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard…

— Tom Freston

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

— Samuel Johnson

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

— Philip Massinger

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

— Seneca the Younger

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

— Quentin Crisp

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

— David Hume