3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

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.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.