Oscar Wilde Quotes

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

I love to look at beauty.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

Beauty is not beauty without love.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.