"Beauty is a form of genius --..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.”

“My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.”

“The proper school to learn art is not life but art”

“The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.”

“He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.”

“I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.”

“The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.”

“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.”

“probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.”