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Forms Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- 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…
- So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was…
- 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…
- Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
- I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the…
More Forms Quotes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. — Michelle Bachelet