"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." ― Oscar Wilde Topic(s): Art Tags: artist, great More From Oscar Wilde "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." "In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin." "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." More In Art "Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."― Isadora Duncan "Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."― Samuel Johnson "Politics is the art of controlling your environment."― Hunter S. Thompson