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Jun 23, 2010 20:17

At my F-list wolf_in_sheeps posted this few minutes ago, and I just feel the need to post it here too:

"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 imprecision of beautiful things.
The highest, the lowest, form of criticism is a ( Read more... )

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lectura35 June 24 2010, 01:28:02 UTC
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope
Love this line :)
Beautiful words, Hon!

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lillywmw June 24 2010, 13:21:49 UTC
I also think that there is hope on those who find beauty on not so beauty things.
Art not all the time is beauty by itself.
Sometimes is a duty of the spectador to find the beauty where at first time it seems it doesn't exist.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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lectura35 June 24 2010, 16:59:29 UTC
I also think that there is hope on those who find beauty on not so beauty things.

Absolutely :)
There´s hope... and those ones have a real gift :) :)

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mac_beth13 June 24 2010, 02:56:34 UTC
What more can one say to add to what Oscar Wilde has already said so eloquently? Thank you for reposting this passage, hon! *hugs*

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lillywmw June 24 2010, 13:31:47 UTC
The highest, the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
These words are so strong and truth, there is no way to any artist be more strengthen on their convictions after understand their meanings.

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missgranger2 June 24 2010, 12:39:04 UTC
Beautiful! It made me smile!

Much love!
Tammy (>:

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lillywmw June 24 2010, 13:35:04 UTC
There are many of passages on this text that fit very well in the moment I'm living, so it was good to read in somebody's else words, someone so wise that lived many years ago, what I think and feel about many things related to art.

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