Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Bad artists always admire each others work.
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
I am not sure I like it myself. But catastrophes in life bring about catastrophes in art. (on his Ballad of Reading Gaol)
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
