life, art, and oscar wilde

• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
• Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

(thanks to Alice)