“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
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of 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
“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
“Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.” — 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
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare buildings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium… — 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
