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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Art - Page 6

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Art, Monsters

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Art, Piano, America

Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

Art, Thinking, Long

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English”, p.196, BookRix

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Art, School, Taste

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Art, Appreciate, Taste

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1653, Delphi Classics

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Art, Reality, Creative

Art should never be popular.

Art, Should

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

Beautiful, Art, Selfish

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Illustrated Edition)”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Art, Nature, Voice

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Beautiful, Art, Home

Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Art, Atheism, Age

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1618, Delphi Classics

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Art, Government, Growth

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Art, Perfect, Use

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) preface

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Art, Special, Critics

Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

Nature constantly imitates art.

Art

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Art, Men, People

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Xist Publishing

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Art, Care, Study

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.921, Wordsworth Editions

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Art, Class, Criminals

Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.223, Courier Corporation

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Art, School, Art Is

Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Art, Mirrors, Beneath The Surface

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.428, Oxford University Press on Demand

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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