The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar WildeLife cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
Oscar WildeIn art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde