Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
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Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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Art should never be popular.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
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The people who have adored me — there have not been very many, but there have been some — have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.