“That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? – Yes dear, if you can believe him. – I don't. But that… — 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
“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two… — 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
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. — 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
“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
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings… — 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
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward’s compliments” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money. You would think she was a little silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that… — 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
