Oscar Wilde Quotes on art

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you... view

By: Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying... view

By: Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament... view

By: Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Vivre est ce qu'il y a de plus beau au monde, la plupart de gens existent, c'est tout... view

By: Oscar Wilde

L'Art est la seule chose sérieuse qui existe au monde. Et l'artiste la seule personne qui n'est jamais sérieuse... view

By: Oscar Wilde

L'art est le résultat mathématique d'un désir sentimental de beauté... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Je considère pour ma part que, pour un homme cultivé, accepter les critères de son époque est faire preuve de l'immoralité la plus grossière... view

By: Oscar Wilde

La vie imite l'art, bien plus que l'art n'imite la vie... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Aucune carte du monde n'est digne d'un regard si le pays de l'utopie n'y figure pas. Car elle exclut le seul pays auquel l'humanité vient toujours accoster... view

By: Oscar Wilde