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- A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other…
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other…
- Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
- A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
- Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England…
- 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…
- Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
- The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
- Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- Most people are other people.
- I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
- Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each…
- In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the…
- Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
- Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
- Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
- When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of…
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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