art quotes

• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! (Walt Whitman) [art/desires/truth/thoughts]
• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. (Walt Whitman) [art/art/light/mail]
• The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. (Oscar Wilde) [civilization & progress/art/beauty]
• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. (Oscar Wilde) [art/art]
• The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. (Oscar Wilde) [age/art]
• Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. (Oscar Wilde) [bad/art]
• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. (Oscar Wilde) [art/people]
• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. (Oscar Wilde) [english/interest/art/question]
• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. (Oscar Wilde) [life/art/music]
• The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. (Oscar Wilde) [stage/meeting/art/life]
• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde) [absolute/taste/art]
• Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. (Oscar Wilde) [bad/art/art]
• All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde) [art]
• Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. (Oscar Wilde) [art/nature]
• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. (Oscar Wilde) [art/idleness/university/teach]
• Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. (Oscar Wilde) [art/artist]
• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. (Walter Winchell) [art]
• The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. (Thomas Wolfe) [art]
• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the (Virginia Woolf) [take/mind/art/creation]
• Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? (William Wordsworth) [art/music/words/life]
• People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. (Carmen Electra) [people/housing/art]
• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire. (Tara Reid) [art]
• Steven Meisel is definitely number one. I also love to work with Albert Watson because his work is a mix of photography and art. (Adriana Lima) [love/art]
• I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. (Alanis Morissette) [art]
• Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. (Grace Jones) [look/people/art/fantasy]
• Some of those dresses are works of art. I'd be happy to just have them in my closet and let somebody else wear them. (Tina Turner) [art]
• The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. (LaToya Jackson) [start/future/art]
• That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't. (Debbie Harry) [music/art]
• I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools. (Chaka Khan) [art]
• I was truly ignorant about art before the film. (Claire Forlani) [art/film]
• But art is not necessarily without controversy. (Jane Alexander) [art]

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