"Even now I cannot help feeling that..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
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“There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
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“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.”
“He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.”
More on Emotion
“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”
“I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.”
“Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.”