Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. Oscar Wilde abstractionartistbeauty share on social
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde afraidpickthing Change image and share on social
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Oscar Wilde artistcriticeducate Change image and share on social
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. Oscar Wilde aloofartcompletely Change image and share on social
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. Oscar Wilde ambitionkingdomprogress Change image and share on social
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde deadflowergarden Change image and share on social
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. Oscar Wilde absolutelyaestheticbeautiful share on social
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Oscar Wilde artdutylie Change image and share on social
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know. Oscar Wilde fogfulllondon Change image and share on social
