Accord Quote by Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

— Oscar Wilde

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who…

— Darryl Anka

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion…

— Douglas Portway

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point…

— Oscar Wilde

“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions…

— Annie Dillard

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points…

— Henry Miller