Quotes of: Wilde Keyword

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

Lara Spencer

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Lincoln Steffens

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Michelangelo

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Miguel de Cervantes

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Marilyn French

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Maurice Sendak

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Philip James Bailey

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Penn Jillette

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Remy de Gourmont

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Richard Schickel

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Rebecca West

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Robert James Waller

I'm enamored with the art world.

Steve Martin

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

1984