“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art.” “He is all my art to me now.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal… — 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 sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the… — 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
“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
“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
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 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 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
