Art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
How little you can know of love if you say it mars your art!
Romantic art begins with its climax.
As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
Love is a more wonderful thing than art. They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.
I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
All art is quite useless.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
If Net art is in the embryonic stage, it's all the more fascinating.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.