"The function of the artist is to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.”

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”

“If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.”

“At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.”

“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”