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
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 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
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint… — 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
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — 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
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — 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
