"There should be a law that no..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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“It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”
“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
“What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?”
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“Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.”
“I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.”
“The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.”