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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Simplicity
Walt Whitman

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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Independence
Walt Whitman

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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
Purpose
Marcia Wieder

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All art is quite useless.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Painters and Painting
Oscar Wilde

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Heartbreak
Oscar Wilde

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Politicians and Politics
Oscar Wilde

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love
Oscar Wilde

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Self-expression
Oscar Wilde

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Opinions
Oscar Wilde

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Dress
Oscar Wilde

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Popularity
Oscar Wilde

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Critics and Criticism
Oscar Wilde

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Obscenity
Oscar Wilde

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Theater
Oscar Wilde

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Republican
Oscar Wilde

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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Nations
Billy Wilder

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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Nations
Billy Wilder

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
Marriage
Thornton Wilder

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun