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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Vision Quotes , Purpose Quotes
  • Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Stars Quotes , Flower Quotes