 | BiographyType: Irish author, Playwright, Poet Born: 16 October 1854 Died: 30 November 1900 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. His father, William Wilde, was an acclaimed doctor who was knighted for his work as medical advisor for the Irish censuses. William Wilde later founded St. |
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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