Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what…

— Oscar Wilde

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

“...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

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

— Philip Schultz

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.”

— Jim Morrison

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it…

— Lucy Foley

“Art is the endeavour to sense the invisible rhythms that surround us, to discover their law, to turn chaos to order.”

— Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both…

— Jennifer Birkett

“There were people who swore as an art form—performing a dazzling juncture of the inordinate and the unexpected.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin