A Quote by Oscar Wilde

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I've never had the permission to be myself except for when I'm doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it's about, 'Can you pick this up, can you move this here,' and I could.

Rain Dove

Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.

Jason Isbell

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

Christian Nestell Bovee

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

James Carville

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

Richelle Mead

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

Lee Trevino

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Mac McAnally

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne

Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.

Josh Hawley

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

George Grosz

One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.