Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye…. – Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye…. – Emily Dickinson
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine L’Engle
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine L’Engle
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions–one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true. – Oscar Wilde
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions–one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true. – Oscar Wilde
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho