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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Art - Page 3

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Art, Censorship, Survived

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Art, Soul, Unity

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

Art, Healing

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.275, Random House

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.95, Oxford University Press on Demand

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

Art, Vitality, Weak

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Life, Art, Theatre

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1026, Wordsworth Editions

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

Beautiful, Art, Aim

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

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

Art, Art Is, Spectators

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

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

Art, Book, School

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Art, Eye, Personality

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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.

Beauty, Art, Prejudice

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

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Art, Diversity, Opinion

Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.8, Prestwick House Inc

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Art, Insulting, England

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.135, Oscar Wilde

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Art, Clever, Intellectual

Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Art, Ideas, Fulfillment

Oscar Wilde (2014). “De Profundis”, p.28, Trajectory Inc

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Beautiful, Art, Impression

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

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

Art, Tired, Vanity

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

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

Art, Passion, People

Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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

Art, Passion, Joy

Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

Beautiful, Art, Cities

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

Art, Writing, Men

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.648, GENERAL PRESS

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Art, Age, Max

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions

All great ideas are dangerous.

Art, Philosophy, Ideas

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Art, Nature, Links

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.85, A&C Black

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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