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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

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

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Art
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There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

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Self
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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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Portraits
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I have a very vivid imagination. – Janice Dickinson

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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. – Whoopi Goldberg

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

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All my life Ive had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly. – Tommy Lee Jones

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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. – Steven Chu

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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. – Pope Paul VI

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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. – William Henry Beveridge

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