Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Why
  • Art

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Tourism

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Political
  • Opinion

• I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Art
  • College
  • Training

• Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

  

  Alli Simpson
  • Experience
  • Things
  • New

• I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Me

• We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • History
  • Science

• Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Team
  • Sports

• It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Only
  • Ourselves