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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Art

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

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

Art, Art Is

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

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

Dream, Art, Stupid

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Art, Imitation, Ends

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.126, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Art, Together, Bankers

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

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

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

Art, Serious Person, Serious Things

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

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

Art, Lying, Men

"The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Art, Artist, Admiration

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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

Art, Business, Acting

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Art, Unique, People

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

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Art, Crowns, World

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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

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

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

Art, Perfection, Perfectionist

1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

The secret of life is in art.

Life, Art, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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

Beautiful, Art, Lying

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

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Art, Dark, Reflection

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

Art, Night, Reality

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Art, Learning, Genius

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Art, Views, People

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.438, University of Chicago Press

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Country, Art, Japan

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art, Imitation, Imitating

Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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

Music, Art, Memories

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

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

Art, Work, Unique

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

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