Oscar Wilde Quotes

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

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• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • Me
  • Never
  • Model

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Choose

• Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Artist
  • Actor
  • YouTube

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Model
  • Famous

• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Learn
  • Model

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sister
  • Used
  • Marry

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Model

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Needs

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Why
  • Success
  • Model

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

  

  John Rocha
  • Work
  • Different
  • Hand

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Model
  • Marry