Admiration Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in…

— Oscar Wilde

“making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires…

— Oscar Wilde

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE”

— Oscar Wilde

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.”

— Nick Hornby

“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts”

— Taha Muhammad Ali

“The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else’s standpoint, we would have a…

— Terry Eagleton

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.”

— John C. Maxwell