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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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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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