Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Inspirational Should Trying
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. — Robert Graham Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day,… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands… — Antony Gormley 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
