People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. – Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. – Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed. – Oscar Wilde
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. – Camille Anna Paglia