Oscar Wilde Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Art Quotes

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

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My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others. I'm not satisfied with the state of humanity. If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.

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Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

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I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

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And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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