"The moment you think you understand a..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“It is personalities not principles that move the age.”

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

“Where there's liberty, art succeeds.”

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.”

“If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.”

“Understanding is a two-way street.”