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To become a work of art is the object of living.

To become a work of art is the object of living.
– Oscar Wilde

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  1. …art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator. – Oscar Wilde
  2. It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde
  3. Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan
  4. I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
  5. someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!! – paradox
  6. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. – Robert Henri
  8. Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde
  9. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
  10. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. – Oscar Wilde
  11. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  12. When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money – Oscar Wilde
  13. What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
  14. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  15. Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art – Oscar Wilde
  16. A really well-made ????onhole is the only link between Art and Nature. – Oscar Wilde
  17. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  18. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. – Oscar Wilde
  19. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
  20. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. – Oscar Wilde
  21. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  22. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  23. I don’t want to earn my living, I want to live. – Oscar Wilde
  24. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
  25. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. – Oscar Wilde
  26. A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
  28. When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art…and you’re the artist and no one else paints your life for you. – Sotero M Lopez II
  29. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  30. Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
  31. When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
  32. When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
  33. There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
  34. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  35. Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life. – Debasish Mridha
  37. A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. – George Saunders
  38. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  39. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
  40. They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde

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