Home » Artist Artist 1 The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. William Blake Good, Great, Artist Add to Collection 2 To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman Humanity, Artist, Real Add to Collection 3 Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. Oscar Wilde Beauty, Artist, Young Add to Collection 4 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde Personality, Artist, Learn Add to Collection 5 Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Oscar Wilde Artist, Public, Critic Add to Collection 6 Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Oscar Wilde Artist, Function, Chronicle Add to Collection 7 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde Art, Great, Artist Add to Collection 8 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde Artist, Portrait, Feeling Add to Collection 9 To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. Abraham Lincoln Art, Artist, Greatest Add to Collection