Art In The Picture Of Dorian Gray Quotes & Sayings

gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face. — John Connolly

Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places." — Frederic Farrar

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy. — Joseph Heller

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always — Viktor Chernomyrdin

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it. — James Salter

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family. — Thomas Jefferson

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap? — Phyllis Diller

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art. — Julian Casablancas

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan. — Elton John

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus

DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS. — Jack Canfield

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. — Yogi Berra

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things — Oscar Wilde

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. — Oscar Wilde

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas. — Jack Kingston

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. — Czeslaw Milosz