Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Aestheticism values beauty and seeks to understand its connection to life and the arts.
In this quote, Oscar Wilde discusses aestheticism as a pursuit of understanding beauty and its relationship with different forms of art. He suggests that this exploration is not just about superficial beauty, but ties deeply into the search for meaning and the essence of existence itself.
Themes
AestheticismBeautyArtLifeScience
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of art in society, one could quote Wilde to emphasize the deep connections between beauty and our understanding of life.
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