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Quote by Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. – Oscar Wilde

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A mans face is his autobiography. A womans face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde

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Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. Ive heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. – Jerry Saltz

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana

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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert

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