Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It often seems… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface” — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
“Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes” — Andrew Wyeth 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