All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
Weitere Zitate von Oscar Wilde
Zum Autor"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"To become a work of art is the object of living."
"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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it."
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
"I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."