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Created on 2004-04-21 20:03:30 (#2911937), last updated 2005-03-24

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Name:	fairere
Birthdate:	04-23
Location:	Madison, Connecticut, United States
Website:	deviantART

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner
or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a
mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are
corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful
things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean
only beauty.
There is no such things as a moral or an immoral
book. Books are well written, or badly written.
That is all.
The nineteenth-century dislike or realism is the rage
of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth-century dislike of romanticism
is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face
in a glass.
The moral like of man forms part of the subject
matter of the artist, but the morality or art consists
in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things
that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical
sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable man-
nerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express ex-
press everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments
of an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of al tge arts
is the art of the musician. From the point of view of
feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their
peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their
peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that
the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with
himself.
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 intentsely.
All art is quite useless.

-Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray

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