Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before…

— Oscar Wilde

“He was conscious—and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes—that it was through certain words of his, musical words…

— Oscar Wilde

“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.”

— Margot Livesey

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor,…

— Denis Donoghue

“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of our lives.”

— Ashley Bryan

“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those,…

— Oscar Wilde

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“It amazes me, how quickly one discovers the truth, hidden deep within the mysteries of life; the secret, to enlightened vision, is but just…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“...the painted veil which those who live call life”

— Somerset Maugham

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of…

— Marcel Proust

The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy,…

— Edward Gibbon

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

— Oscar Wilde