Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Books Escapism Fiction Life Literature Mere Reading Reality Supreme Treated Words
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in the world and realizing that it was just my lot to be a person and to live in the world. See, the normal world dissolves in these experiences, and you realize that it is just an… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share
Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I do in films is really special work but it doesn't happen everyday. On the other hand, art is completely my domain. It… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of not seeming real enough . We have a need, however illusive, for a life that is more real than life. It lies in the imagination. Fiction would seem to be the way it is processed into… — Wright Morris Copy Share
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves… — Lucian Freud 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
