Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“What if I began to believe that the critique isn’t just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — Oscar Wilde 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
