The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. – Oscar Wilde
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. – Marcel Duchamp