Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

Art should never be popular.

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

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And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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