Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured…

— Oscar Wilde

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

— William Monahan

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk,…

— Jerry Saltz

“While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another. Most of…

— Marcel Proust

“Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads,…

— Walter Pater

“Speaking for the grotesques,” he said, “I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” Jaime”

— George R.R. Martin

I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century because people…

— Michael Bierut

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

— Glen Cook

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

— Harry Shearer

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to…

— Sylvia Plath

I love playing grotesques, I relish it.

— Kathy Burke

“He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I…

— Oscar Wilde