Art 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.

— 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

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

— Philip Larkin

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of the world.…

— Travis Knight

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

— Richard Avedon

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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

— Annie Dillard

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

— Anais Nin

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

— Leo Tolstoy