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Feelings Quotes - Page 91

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

"Feelings are a Bourgeois luxury". Interview with Lindsay Baker, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

"Talking Girl Power and What's Next With 'Game of Thrones' Star Nathalie Emmanuel". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. June 27, 2016.