The Lady’s World’ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Oscar Wilde Read Quote
