Oscar Wilde Quotations Art and Beauty

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions,
it will not look ugly

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But … it is better to be good than to be ugly.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

All art is quite useless.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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