Oscar Wilde Quotes on Creativity
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I, do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
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Her eyes caught the melody and echoed it in radiance, then closed for a moment, as though to hide their secret. When they opened, the mist of a dream had passed across them.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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The only creative thought one can have in an institution is how to get out.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.