Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes, Soul And Body Quotes

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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