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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Art - Page 2

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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Art, Philosophy, Dark Water

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.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

Art, Unique, Self

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Art, Useless Things, Excuse

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Art, Persist

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Life, Art, Reality

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Art, Grief, Men

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, 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.

Art, Men, Machines

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

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Being Yourself, Art, Hurt

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Inspirational, Art, Mean

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

Art, Doe, Different

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.753, GENERAL PRESS

California is an Italy without its art.

Art, California

Quoted in Denver Tribune, Apr. 1882

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

Art, Resemblance Is, Perfection

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

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

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

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Art, Spontaneity, Prepared

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Art, College, Important

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Reviews”, p.602, Oscar Wilde

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Beautiful, Art, Men

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.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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.

Art, Theatre, Acting

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

Change, Beautiful, Art

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Music, Art, Ideas

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art, Aim Of Life, Sake

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

Art, Tired, Men

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.151, Oxford University Press on Demand

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Art, Peril, Beneath The Surface

Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.4, Bibliolis Books

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Art, Pain, Appreciate

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

Art, Limits, Belief

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.

Art, College, Men

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