Oscar Wilde Quotes

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Life and art are inseparable.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Making art is different for everyone.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I believe in art.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.