"The only thing that the artist cannot..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.”

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”

“He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.”

“I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.”

“No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.”

“The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.”

“Public credit is suspicion asleep.”

“This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.”

“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”