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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde

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Art
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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Generations
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Truth
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A picture is a poem without words. – Horace

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Its a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W. H. Auden

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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

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Theres no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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