Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Ideas Quotes

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

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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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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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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