An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — 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
“I admit that i think it is better to be beautiful then to be good. But on the other hand no one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“but more often he would be alone, feeling through a certain quick instinct, which was almost a divination, that the secrets of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For you, at least, are young; ‘no hungry generations tread you down,’ and the past does not weary you with the intolerable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. — 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
