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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

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. – Oscar Wilde

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Love
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Oscar Wilde
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on. – Oscar Wilde

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Sunshine
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Art
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Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay

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Art

The perfection of art is to conceal art. – Quintilian

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Art

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden

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Art

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. – Victor Hugo

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Art

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One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. – Bryant H. McGill

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