--- title: "3 Canvas Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "3 Canvas quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Canvas sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_age_he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himsel_249386.jpg" --- > [He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himself-might-remain-untarnished/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_age_he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himsel_249386.jpg) > [What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/what-the-worm-was-to-the-corpse-his-sins-would-be-to-the-painted/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c5/oscar-wilde-16_alive_what-the-worm-was-to-the-corpse-his-sins_303777.jpg) > [every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/every-portrait-that-is-painted-with-feeling-is-a-portrait-of-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/oscar-wilde-16_accidents_every-portrait-that-is-painted-with-feel_833284.jpg) ## Other authors on Canvas - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anna-bartlett-warner-13611.jpg) Philip Guston 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/philip-guston/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-picasso-73081.jpg) Pablo Picasso 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/pablo-picasso/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-danny-kaye-26721.jpg) Danny Kaye 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/danny-kaye/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/vincent-van-gogh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernard-beckett-17293.jpg) Charles Webster Hawthorne 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/charles-webster-hawthorne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wassily-kandinsky-94601.jpg) Wassily Kandinsky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/wassily-kandinsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-jodl-11301.jpg) John Constable 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/john-constable/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-joan-miro-50198.jpg) Joan Miro 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/joan-miro/) ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/canvas/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "3 Canvas Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himself-might-remain-untarnished/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_age_he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himsel_249386.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_age_he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himsel_249386.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/oscar-wilde-16_age_he-had-uttered-a-mad-wish-that-he-himsel_249386.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. 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