“A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
