"I made art a philosophy, and philosophy..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful
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“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”
“I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.”
“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”
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“In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.”
“The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a picture of Bart Simpson on it or little suction cups on its feet so you can stick it onto a car window.”
“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses”
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“Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.”
“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said”