Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

— Oscar Wilde

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the…

— Oscar Wilde

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not…

— Oscar Wilde

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to…

— Jacob Epstein

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

— Alexander Smith

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

— Umberto Boccioni

I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I…

— Toyin Odutola

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning