"I gave my genius to my life,..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

“Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?”

“Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.”

“A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.”

“But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.”

“No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.”

“In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.”

“We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.”