“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
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.” — 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
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
“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — 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
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
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
“My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — 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
“Nearly always in Dutch painting and often in the works of Giorgione or Titian, it is entirely independent of anything definitely poetical… — 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
“What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why… — 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
“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 a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the… — 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
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — 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
