Oscar Wilde Art Quotes


Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. Oscar Wilde Art 163
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde art 122
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. Oscar Wilde Art 113
Lying, a telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art. Oscar Wilde Art 112
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Oscar Wilde Art 101
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde Art 96
All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde art 95
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde Art 91
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 be a human being. Oscar Wilde Art 91
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. Oscar Wilde Art 86
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One Oscar Wilde Art 85
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde art 81
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde art 79
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde Art 73
All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde Art 72
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. Oscar Wilde Art 66
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. Oscar Wilde Art 64
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde Art 60
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde Art 54
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Oscar Wilde Art 53
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde Art 44
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Oscar Wilde Art 43
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde art 43

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