Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social prob... - Oscar Wilde
"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."
"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."
"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"