Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Expression Quotes

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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To define is to limit.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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