Caricatures Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caricatures Genius Mediocrity Pay Tribute
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists. — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. — William Dobell Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. — Hans Hofmann 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
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
51% of the French people - who are not very religious - were thinking that what "Charlie Hebdo" did was unwise. They aren't asking… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. — Mia Kirshner Copy Share Image
I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image