Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

— John Kani

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into…

— Oscar Wilde

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want…

— Oscar Wilde

It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a…

— Peter M. Brant

“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece for the…

— Oscar Wilde

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for…

— Thorstein Veblen

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the…

— Paul Gauguin

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so…

— Grayson Perry

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many…

— Kazimir Malevich

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger