Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

— Philip Roth

“But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy beauty. Is…

— Jacqueline Winspear

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat…

— Oscar Wilde

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne

The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist…

— Jeff Koons

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must…

— Philip Roth

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom…

— Jen Wang

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of…

— Oscar Wilde

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

— Roger Scruton