Oscar Wilde Quotes

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Generation
  • Old

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
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  • History
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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • War
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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
  • You
  • Old
  • Skills

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

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Start

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
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• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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  • Business

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • Spy

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Old
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• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

  

  Adam Jones
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• How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

  

  Gail Parent
  • She
  • Mother
  • Feel

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• You don’t have to kill an animal because you want to be hot and fly. It’s not the 16th century anymore. We’ve got central heating for God’s sake. And you can get a fake fur coat. I have one. It’s fabulous.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Animal
  • Fly

• There's nothing new under the sun - you just get a can of paint out.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Sun

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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