"The artist is the creator of beautiful..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
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.
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“The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.”
“I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.”
“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.”
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“The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
“The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”