Quote by

...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

…art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
– Oscar Wilde

Related Quotes:

  1. Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves. – AE Samaan
  2. To become a work of art is the object of living. – Oscar Wilde
  3. I drink to separate my body from my soul. – Oscar Wilde
  4. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  5. It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde
  6. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  7. You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person’s spirit from his body. – Richard Selzer
  8. Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words. – David Rains Wallace
  9. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
  10. Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty. – Oscar Wilde
  11. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  12. Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind. – Jo Baker
  13. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  14. someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!! – paradox
  15. Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect. – Imania Margria
  16. Strive to be more than number one-”strive to be the greatest number one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. – Robert Henri
  19. Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde
  20. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
  21. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. – Oscar Wilde
  22. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  23. When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money – Oscar Wilde
  24. What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
  25. Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art – Oscar Wilde
  26. A really well-made ????onhole is the only link between Art and Nature. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  28. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
  30. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. – Oscar Wilde
  31. It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. – Salman Rushdie
  32. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  33. There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
  34. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. – Oscar Wilde
  35. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. – Oscar Wilde
  36. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. – James Joyce
  37. All types and levels of art are beautiful, because art is beautiful, creativity is gorgeous and the artist itself is a masterpiece already. – Kelly Palmen
  38. It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. – Oscar Wilde
  39. It is he who has broken the bond of marriage – not I. I only break its bondage. – Oscar Wilde
  40. Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place. – Oscar Wilde

More Quotes

, , , , ,