When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — 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
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — 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
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 form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art… — 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
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” — 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
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time. — 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
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — 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
