Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only…

Oscar Wilde
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated), p.1670, Delphi Classics
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2012). The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde, p.175, Courier Corporation
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ✨ Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Po … ▶

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated), p.1670, Delphi Classics

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