Quotes from 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
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
- Oscar Wilde