Quotes on art
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” — William Wordsworth
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” — William Wordsworth
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” — Oscar Wilde
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” — Oscar Wilde
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” — Oscar Wilde
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” — Oscar Wilde
“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox