Oscar Wilde Quotes About Creativity
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All art is quite useless.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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To define is to limit.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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