Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
I am not sure I like it myself. But catastrophes in life bring about catastrophes in art. (on his Ballad of Reading Gaol)
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
All art is quite useless.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.
