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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Vitality Quotes
  • There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hands Quotes , World Quotes