Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““All bad art is the result of good intentions.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Good intentions Intention Results
“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me… — Lucien Carr Copy Share Image
“You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.” — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.” — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to treat mistakes as art: unexpected, instructive, and always worth an open mind.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
