Quotes of: Wilde Keyword

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

Abbas Kiarostami

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

Enid Blyton

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Erykah Badu

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

Flannery O'Connor

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

George V. Higgins

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Goldwin Smith

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Honore de Balzac

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

James Joyce