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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Mirrors Quotes
  • I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , People Quotes , Hearing Quotes
  • Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vanity Quotes