Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — 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
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and… — 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
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — 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
“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
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in… — 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
“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
“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — 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
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
