It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
From Oscar Wilde
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Only the shallow know themselves.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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