Quotes about Art
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.
— Myles Munroe
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.
— Oscar Wilde
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
— Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
— Oscar Wilde
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
— Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
— Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Oscar Wilde
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
— Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
— Oscar Wilde
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde