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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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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. – Oscar Wilde

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. – Oscar Wilde

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A painting that is well composed is half finished. – Pierre Bonnard

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Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. – Ernst Levy

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At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. – Jim Henson

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Lets talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. Its a Gigantic project. – Joseph Beuys

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The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career. – Julio Iglesias

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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. – James Laughlin

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