“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The political independence of a nation must not be confused with any intellectual isolation. The spiritual freedom, indeed, your own generous lives… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
