“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
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.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
On his later respectability.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Wisecracks
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Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
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“Rickey had all the money and all the players and never let the two get together.”
Branch Rickey (1881–1965) American baseball player and coach
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“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
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.”
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist
"Biography and Criticism", p. 160
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)