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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

Source: The Relation of Dress to Art: A Note in Black and White on Mr. Whistler's Lecture, in Pall Mall Gazette(London), 28 Feb 1885.
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.

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