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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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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Life
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Oscar Wilde
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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Martyr, Martyrdom
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton

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Art

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

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Art

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland

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Art

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Art

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. – Victor Hugo

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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. Ive been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If Im going on a longer car ride, Ill download some podcasts. – Sam Trammell

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