“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
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Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Letter to William Irving, Jr., about his positive attitude acquired while traveling in Europe.
Source: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.
“It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.”
On his later respectability.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Wisecracks
“How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“Rickey had all the money and all the players and never let the two get together.”
Ralph Kiner, speaking on April 15, 2004, Jackie Robinson Day, in the FSNY broadcast booth; as quoted in "Dog Gone? No Way; Russo Listens to Heart, Stays with FAN" by Bob Raissman, in New York Daily News (April 18, 2004), p. 85
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
As quoted in Newsweek (16 May 1955) Variant translation: Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”
"Biography and Criticism", p. 160
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)