Art Quotes

"Emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art."

"I can forgive Mr. Dorian Gray for painting a bad picture, but I cannot forgive him for painting a picture that is not bad enough."

"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."

"All art is quite useless."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."

"The mask tells us more than the face."

"This is morality about art."

"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

"Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music."

"Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act."

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist."

"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists."

"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."

"You remind me of a wonderful work of art."

"The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists."

"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

"There is a great difference between a man's own life and his art."

"The soul fortunately has an interpreter in the eye"

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."

"All art is quite useless."

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."

"Art has no influence upon action."