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Expression Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places…
- The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The…
- Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
- I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to…
- If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.
- If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
- I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when…
- Art never expresses anything but itself.
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