Oscar Wilde Quotes

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

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

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

The world will be saved by beauty.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.