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Modern
pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least,
some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live
with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual.
Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly
defined. One
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
All art is
quite useless.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
No great
artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he
would cease to be an artist.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
The moment you
think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
-- Robert Wilson
1941-, American Theater
Director, Designer
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The artist
must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
-- Winkelmann
This is the
artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity,
beauty's miser, glory's slave.
-- Thomas Wolfe
1931-, American Author,
Journalist
The notion
that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is
merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the
trophies distributed long before the public knows what has
happened.
-- Thomas Wolfe
1931-, American Author,
Journalist
It is not in
life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
-- George E. Woodberry
1855-1930, American Literary
Critic
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