Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as lon...
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becom...
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."-Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only...
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
You know I have loved him always.But we are very poor.Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.