Oscar Wilde Quotes

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.

Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.