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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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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. – Oscar Wilde

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Soul
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo

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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. – Vidal Sassoon

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Art

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. – Anatole France

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. – Thomas a Kempis

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Im not a very good painter, but Im learning a lot. – Cleo Moore

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