Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

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O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

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A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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