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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Vitality Quotes
  • I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Stars Quotes , Moon Quotes