"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.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.
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“The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.”
“Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.”
“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”
More on Journalism
“If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.”
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
“Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.”