Oscar Wilde Quotes About Aesthetics

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.

In judging of a beautiful statue the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play, more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

All art is quite useless.