"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
― Oscar Wilde
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Art
More From Oscar Wilde
- "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
- "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
- "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
More In Art
- "I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary."― Jerry Saltz
- "I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."― Jackson Pollock
- "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’"― Edgar Allan Poe