Art Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Education
“had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“How marvelous it is to do nothing and then relax from doing nothing.” — Heinrich Zille Copy Share Image
“Kind prince there is nothing in the realm of ideas that is absolute, therefore all efforts to form ideologies are ultimately futile.” — Lao Tse Copy Share Image
“Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing! Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.” — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
“While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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