Oscar Wilde Quotes

All art is self-portraiture.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.

All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.