Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory… — 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
“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
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If I can produce only one beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice of its venom, and cowardice… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — 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
