Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.
Oscar WildeMots clés herod
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Oscar WildeMots clés wilde oscar-wilde the-picture-of-dorian-gray dorian-gray
Какво ще кажеш за изкуството? — попита тя.
— То е болест.
— А любовта?
— Илюзия.
— А религията?
— Моден заместител на вярата.
— Ти си скептик.
— Не съм. Скептицизмът е началото на вярата.
— Какъв си тогава?
— Да определиш, значи да ограничиш.
It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
Oscar WildeNiagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
Oscar WildeMots clés disappointment niagara
But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.
Oscar Wildenothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.
Oscar Wildepeople who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination. Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.
Oscar WildeMots clés inspirational oscar wilde dorian gray
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Mots clés art literature criticism preface 1890
Before Turner there was no fog in London.
Oscar WildeMots clés brilliant
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