There is no fine art without self-consciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one.
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Citations by Oscar Wilde
Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy.
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The philistine component in life isn't the incompetence in understanding art. Charming people like fishermen, sherperds, plowers, peasants and likewise no nothing of art and they are the real salt of the earth.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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Music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.
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If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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I never talk during music, at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves.
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The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
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Mediocrity weighing mediocrity in the balance, and incompetence applauding its brother -- that is the spectacle which the artistic activity of England affords us from time to time.
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