Oscar Wilde Quotes

Art is the right hand of Nature.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Art is the child of Nature.

You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.

Art is a self-replicating force.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Art is all a matter of personality.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.