"No great artist ever sees things as..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.”

“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”

“Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“Art is lies that tell the truth.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”

“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.”