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Manner Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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…
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute…
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate…
- Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
- How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be…
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- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce