15 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Creativity

Oscar Wilde quotes on creativity

7. Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I, do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

10. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

17. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

27. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

29. His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.

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

37. I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

42. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

43. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

62. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

87. Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.

125. Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

201. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

225. The only creative thought one can have in an institution is how to get out.

238. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.