Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes, Feelings Quotes

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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