Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“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

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“With success came a new, deeper doubt that any activity, even his cherished writing, could make life mean anything.”

— Eric Maisel

“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

“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

“It is a good lesson--though it may often be a hard one--for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned…

— C S Lewis

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust