513 Quotes About Oscar-wilde

And, right or wrong, rational or absurd, Oscar Wilde is always fascinating. He is the man you hope will walk into the room and come to sit at the spare place at your table.

To many today Oscar is a gay icon who can do no wrong, but, in truth, he was human, multifaceted and no saint. Part of the tragedy of Oscar Wilde is that it is now almost impossible to view him except through the prism of his downfall.

Art begins with abstract decoration with purely imaginative and pleasurable work dealing with what is unreal and non existent.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.

We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.