"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reaso...
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, th...
"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
"No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpa...
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters...
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...
"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...
"Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world...
"Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.