Quotes about Inspiration
I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…
— Oscar Wilde
Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination
— Oscar Wilde
Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.
— Oscar Wilde
He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.
— Oscar Wilde
As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.
— Oscar Wilde
The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
— Oscar Wilde
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
— Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
— Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
— Oscar Wilde
But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
— Oscar Wilde
Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism--that is what our century wants.
— Oscar Wilde