Oscar Wilde Quotes
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes to Explore
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd
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I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow
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As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.
Thomas Hobbes
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There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.
Echo Bodine
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
Nathan Sawaya
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
Fetty Wap
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Oscar Wilde