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.

Oscar Wilde
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In the quote, "All art is quite useless," Oscar Wilde is not saying that art can never be a useful tool. He's saying that even though it's a useful tool, it's not a useful tool in the way that he wants it to be used. The quote can be interpreted as any of these: - Art is a useless tool but people use it for various functions. - Art is a useful tool but its usefulness is limited to one specific purpose. - Art is a useful tool but its usefulness has been stretched to the limits. For example, if you make a cake using cake batter, it will turn out to be delicious and delicious for everyone, but you still wouldn't call it a cake because it doesn't have all the traditional characteristics of what we know as "cake." But if you make ice cream with cake batter, then it's definitely ice cream because it does have all the characteristics of what we know as "cake."

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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