Art Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“The is nothing that art cannot express”

— Oscar Wilde

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

— Oscar Wilde

California is an Italy without its art.

— Oscar Wilde

“Life is short, art is infinite.”

— Oscar Wilde

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

— Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol.

— Oscar Wilde

“artists have sex but art has none”

— Oscar Wilde

Bad artists always admire each others work.

— Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

— Oscar Wilde

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

— Oscar Wilde

God and other artists are always a little obscure…

— Oscar Wilde

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

— Oscar Wilde

“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we…

— Oscar Wilde

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design,…

— Oscar Wilde

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

— Oscar Wilde

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of…

— Oscar Wilde

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

— Oscar Wilde

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to…

— Oscar Wilde

“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.”

— Oscar Wilde

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the…

— Oscar Wilde

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the…

— Oscar Wilde

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he…

— Oscar Wilde

“I blame myself without reserve for my weakness. It was merely weakness. One half-hour with Art was always more to me than…

— Oscar Wilde

The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

— Oscar Wilde

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism…

— Oscar Wilde

“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

“Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different. One…

— Oscar Wilde

“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises…

— Oscar Wilde

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please…

— Oscar Wilde

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives…

— Oscar Wilde

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left…

— Oscar Wilde