Quotes from 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.
- Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
- 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.
- Oscar Wilde
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- Oscar Wilde
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- Oscar Wilde
Art should never be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
- Oscar Wilde
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- Oscar Wilde