Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim...The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography...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. No artist desires to prove anything...No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style...All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself." - - Oscar Wilde, 1891 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html