"An artist should create beautiful things, but..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.”

“In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.”

“Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.”

“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.”

“I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.”