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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 well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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Saint, Saints
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

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Death
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. – Peter De Vries

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Art

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

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Art

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity. – Thomas A. Edison

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Art

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art

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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. – Milton Glaser

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Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics. – Author Unknown

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