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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Art - Page 4

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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.

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.

Art, Disappointment, Sacrifice

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

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

Art, Philosophy, History

Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.107, University of Illinois Press

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art, Fear, Perfection

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.380, University of Chicago Press

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

Art, Mirrors, Diversity

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

There is nothing that art cannot express.

Art

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

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Art, Artist, Littles

Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde: poems, fiction, plays, lectures, essays, and letters”, Clarkson Potter

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Beautiful, Art, Giving

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

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

Art, Dignity, Moments

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Art, Genius, Talent

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Art, Artist, Art Is

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.780, GENERAL PRESS

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Art, Good Intentions, Results

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.133, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

Art, Book, Carpe Diem

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Art, Philosophy, Made

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Art, Writing, Looks

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

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

Art, Philosophy, Civilization

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.67, Courier Corporation

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

Art, Secret, Life Is

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.8, Oscar Wilde

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Art, Giving, Criticism

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.69, Oscar Wilde

There is only good art and mediocre art.

Art, Mediocre, Good Art

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Art, Lying, Duty

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Art, Father, Not Good Enough

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.32, Mondial

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Art, Infancy, Interest

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

All art is quite useless.

Funny, Sarcastic, Art

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Art

'The Decay of Lying' in 'Intentions' (1891)

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Art, Stupid, Hands

Oscar Wilde (2018). “Oscar Wilde Collection”, p.11, Youcanprint

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

Art, Creativity, Thinking

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