Quote #202

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
  2. The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
  3. Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.
  4. In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
  5. Charity creates a multitude of sins.
  6. I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
  7. The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninte…
  8. When a voice behind me whispered low, 'That fellow's got to swing.'

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