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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 through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – 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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A great artist is always before his time or behind it. – George Moore

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. – Jerzy Kosinski

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