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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. – Oscar Wilde

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde

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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. – Michael Tippett

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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. – Eartha Kitt

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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. – William Morris

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