Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing…

— Oscar Wilde

“He was in control of every aspect of his profession and he deferred to no one. In his private life, however, he was clueless.”

— Robert Bryndza

“Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to…

— Tahir Shah

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.”

— Louis L'Amour

“When faced with everything sometimes the best course of action is nothing.”

— Bill Callahan

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius