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Oscar wilde quotes about art1/2/2024 “Only the shallow know themselves.” -from “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young” (1882) Wilde died destitute in Paris at the age of 46 despite being a literary genius of his age. The highly successful run of The Importance of Being Earnest was brought to an end and his family possessions and house were sold. Wilde was sentenced to hard labor for two years. In 1895, Wilde was charged under this law, and the trial included exchanges in which his literary career and works were used as evidence against him. The Labouchere Amendment made it possible for England to persecute men for “gross indecency,” or for being homosexual. England at the time was a swirl of homophobia. Unfortunately, Wilde is also known for the tragic circumstances of his death. His society comedy plays, including Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, launched him into popular society, where he was also known for his wit. He incorporated themes of aestheticism, duplicity, and beauty into one of his best-known works and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. You’ve likely seen Oscar Wilde quotes, both misattributed and accurate, all over your Pinterest boards. If you don’t already know the Irish playwright and poet, here’s a crash course. Twitter: All posts by Leah Rachel von Essen She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of women’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. She was one of a select few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She writes passionately about books in translation, chronic illness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. Her blog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 dedicated followers over several social media outlets, including Instagram. By night, she reviews genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes regularly as a senior contributor at Book Riot. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.By day, Leah Rachel von Essen is the editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Magazine at the University of Chicago. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. Books are well written, or badly written. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. “The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
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