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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.


Oscar Wilde

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CONOR MAYNARD The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro...
RAYMOND CHANDLER God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no rea...
PABLO PICASSO God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real...
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AUSTIN MAHONE I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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CHARLES HILL If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he o...
PAUL CEZANNE An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. Th...
DAVID EBERSHOFF You might call him a promiscuous sitter, ... He would sit for just about any artist in the last 10 y...
FRED VOSS The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the...
AASIF MANDVI Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and...
JANE CHOC I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ...
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ANDY WARHOL He was really a passionate artist. Whenever he sang, he held nothing back.
JEFF GWALTNEY No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKE It's a great time to be an artist, ... because a lot of the sacred cows are no longer in evidence.
MAXWELL L. ANDERSON To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not...
BRUNO DUMONT The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
G. K. CHESTERTON To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one...
OSCAR WILDE Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off o...
VICTORIA JUSTICE I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
E.M. FORSTER I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He w...
KARL HEPNER No one asked an artist who was great in his 20s and 30s why he was still painting in his 40s and 50s...
EDWIN MOSES [But] he could never take an audience seriously. If he took their advice, what they liked, that woul...
BARRY MILES He is beloved for his integrity as an artist. I think that matters.
ETHAN RUSSELL I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had i...
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would ...
IRVING STONE Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?
CAMILLE PAGLIA If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key...
ELTON JOHN Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really...
OSCAR WILDE A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. ...
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundar...
DIERKS BENTLEY I don't see Oldenburg as an influence, but he casts a big shadow as an extraordinary artist,
DONALD LIPSKI If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
SALMAN RUSHDIE He's been a bit of secret. People of course know him as an actor and director, but you ask him, he w...
DOUGLAS CHRISMAS Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist.
SHAKIRA In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
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EZRA POUND He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a ...
FERNANDO BOTERO No man really knows how to live if he did, he would never die.
VIKRANT PARSAI I think Oak Park is really a wonderful place as an artist because you have great colleagues here.
BILL KERR An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do wha...
LANGSTON HUGHES A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLES But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...
PHILIP K. DICK Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All an artist really wants is to feel something and express it exactly as they felt it.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS Intelligence sees things as they are; wisdom sees things as they should be.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
PABLO PICASSO One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Chihuly believes art is for everybody. He thinks that everybody can be an artist.
JOANNA SIKES No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time.
JOE QUEENAN You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but k...
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EILEEN MURPHY I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w...
RYAN MCGINLEY No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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G.K. CHESTERTON If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then...
AMEN MUFFLER When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted...
HIROKO SAKAI Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas ...
WILLEM DE KOONING The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with t...
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OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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