Skip to content
oscarwilde.ieThe complete works
  • Works
  • Plays
  • Poems
  • Fairy Tales
  • Essays
  • Quotes
  • Life
"All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
  • Works
  • Plays
  • Poems
  • Fairy Tales
  • Essays
  • Quotes
  • Life
  • Stories
  • About
  1. Home
  2. /Quotes
  3. /Much bad art comes from one art...

Wilde, verified

"Much bad art comes from one art trying to borrow from another."

The Close of the Arts and Crafts (essay, 1888)
Read it in context

Checked word for word against the text of The Close of the Arts and Crafts.

More from The Close of the Arts and Crafts

Every quote →
  • "And yet machines are bad only when they are our masters."
  • "For a new age we require a new form."
  • "Next year somebody must lecture the Arts and Crafts on Japanese art."
  • "The printing press is a machine that Art values because it obeys her."
oscarwilde.ie
"No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Lord Darlington, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III

Read

  • All works
  • Plays
  • Poems
  • Fairy tales
  • Short stories
  • Essays and lectures

This site

  • His life
  • Quotes
  • Places
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Search
  • Contact
  • Privacy

Oscar Wilde's works are in the public domain. Texts from Standard Ebooks, released under CC0.

An independent site, made in Ireland