Lecture to Art Students Quotes

“All good work looks perfectly modern: a piece of Greek sculpture, a portrait of Velasquez—they are always modern, always of our time.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“Do not wait for life to be picturesque, but try and see life under picturesque conditions.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“If you are an artist at all, you will be not the mouthpiece of a century, but the master of eternity.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students

“We never know what an artist is going to do. Of course not. The artist is not a specialist. All such divisions as animal painters, landscape painters, painters of Scotch cattle in an English mist, painters of English cattle in a Scotch mist, racehorse painters, bull-terrier painters, all are shallow. If a man is an artist he can paint everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lecture to Art Students