I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Weitere Zitate von Oscar Wilde
Zum Autor"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
"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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it."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 bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."