Quotes about Creativity
The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.
— Oscar Wilde
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
— Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
— Oscar Wilde
For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
— Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
— Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
— Oscar Wilde
People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.
— Oscar Wilde
But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.
— Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
— Oscar Wilde
I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.
— Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
— Oscar Wilde