Oscar Wilde Quotes

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

A great painting is a great painting.

I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Art is a sense of magic.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

I start a picture and I finish it.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

My painting does not come from the easel.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.