I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
