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
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.
In practice
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.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
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