Oscar Wilde Quotes

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Oscar Wilde

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• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Birth

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• 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
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Players
  • Other

• 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
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• 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
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Believe
  • Idea
  • What Matters

• We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Artist
  • Exist
  • Solo

• The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Function
  • Invent