Quotes by
Oscar Wilde

[1854 – 1900] English poet, playwright and prosaist

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

Oscar Wilde

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Oscar Wilde

in "Lillie"

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde