Oscar Wilde Quotes

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

What is art but a way of seeing?

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.