Oscar Wilde Quotes

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

Oscar Wilde

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• What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.

  

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

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• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

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• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

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• I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

  

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• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

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• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

  

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• My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

  

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• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

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• If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.

  

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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

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• I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the things white people have accomplished throughout history, I smile, and I nod, and I think to myself, 'Yeah, I'm glad I'm on that team.'

  

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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

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• I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

  

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• Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

  

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• As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ideas
  • Original
  • Superiority