Sunday, Aug. 09, 2009 - 1:39 p.m.
Big Fat Gay Guy Speaks
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"No artist desires to prove anything.
Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies.
An ethical sympathy in an artist
is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid.
The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are
to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist
materials for an art.
From the point of view of form,
the type of all the arts
is the art of the musician.
From the point of view of feeling,
the actor's craft is the type.
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.
We can forgive a man
for making a useful thing
as long as he does not admire it.
The only excuse for making
a useless thing is that
one admires it intensely."
....Oscar Wilde
