You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.” — 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
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
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Cyril: surely you would acknowledge that art expresses the temper of its age, the spirit of its time, the moral and social… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No” — 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
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — 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
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — 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
