Oscar Wilde Quotes About Art

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Creative

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

• Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Disappointment, Sacrifice

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• There is nothing that art cannot express.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

• There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dignity, Moments

• The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, College, Men

• The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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  Art, Art Is, Spectators

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Expression

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.164, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

• What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Men, Machines

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

• Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Passion, Joy

• The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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  Beautiful, Art, Aim

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.60, Courier Corporation

• The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Art Is

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.76, Xist Publishing

• When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Together, Bankers

• Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1052, Wordsworth Editions

• You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Art, Stupid

• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Art, Mean

• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitating

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Work, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Resemblance Is, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.313, Penguin

• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

• 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, Theatre, Acting

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