Posted by: MesaQueen
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the bloom is gone...
Written on thursday june 30, 2011
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the bloom is gone...
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Bad women tempt one. Good women bore one. That is the difference between them.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals.
Lord Henry: All i want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care.
Death is the only thing I fear. I detest if for nowadays it is the only thing you can't survive. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Limitiation is suffering, enough is a consoloation, more than enough is a delightful banquet.
Duty is what one expects from others.
Women are a decorative sex -- they have nothing to say, but they say it charmingly.
Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, as in love, in the artist, it's simply the sense of beauty that manifests to the world his body and soul.