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«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
«They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'»
«How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
before Christ, Breaking up, break into, break with, broken, Broken Heart, christ, else, enter, heart, how, Lord's table, lorded, may, through
«No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.»
«One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one»
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusement, blockhead, blockheads, civilized, disbelief, expresses, instruction, liar, loudly, rate, re-creation, recognizes, recreation, recreations, very loudly
«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.»
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
anticipates, Balzac, century, copy, invention, largely, literature, Moulds, nineteenth, nineteenth century
«The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Journalism,
Literature
| Keywords:
journalism, unreadable
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