Quote by Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the a

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

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Prison
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde

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Parents
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Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

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Society
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. – William Ralph Inge

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Art

It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918

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Art

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. – Remy de Gourmont

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Art

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood Im in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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God

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. – Hillary Clinton

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Art

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies. – Kiefer Sutherland

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movies

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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Society