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
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
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 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
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
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
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which… — 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
“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
“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
“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
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — 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
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“was no stain left upon it. It was bright, and glistened. As it had killed the painter, so it would kill the… — 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
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
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
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — 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
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be… — 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
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — 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
