"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reaso...
Art, like Nature, has her monsters
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...
"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.
"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 ...
"Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
"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.
"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to...
"God and other artists are always a little obscure.....