Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Vendor: DRAMATISTS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Source: Lecture, 30 Jun 1883, to students of the Royal Academy, London
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA