A Dreamer Is One Who Can Only Find Meaning
There should exist a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The damage they exercise by their foolish and random writing it would be incommunicable to overestimate—not to the artist but to the public. . . . Without them we would judge a man merely by his piece of work; but at nowadays the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for example, never by his statues merely by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his tie.
—Oscar Wilde, Fine art and the Handicraftsman
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was known as the "Apostle of Aestheticism". Wilde explained "Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the cute. Information technology is the science through which men look after the correlation which exists in the arts. It is, to speak more than exactly, the search after the secret of life." Wilde calls aestheticism a philosophy. "Information technology is a study of what may be constitute in art and nature. Whatever in fine art represents eternal truth expresses the great underlying truth of aestheticism."
Notes:
Oscar Wilde photograph courtesy of The American Reader
Wilde's signature courtesy of his official website
Title Quote from Oscar Wilde'southward The Critic equally Artist
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