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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 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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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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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Its great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. – Jerry Saltz

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. – Camille Paglia

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