Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Interpretation
Criticism of art should focus on the work itself, not the creator's personality.
Oscar Wilde emphasizes the importance of objective critique in the field of art. He suggests that a true critic should evaluate the quality and merit of an artwork based on its own attributes and context, rather than being influenced by their personal feelings towards the artist. This approach fosters a more impartial appreciation of art, ultimately enriching the dialogue around artistic expression.
In practice
During an art critique session in a classroom setting.
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
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal characters, and I know the major turning points and events from the books, the climaxes for each book, but I don't necessarily know each twist and turn along the way. That's something I discover in the course of writing and that's what makes writing enjoyable. I think if I outlined comprehensively and stuck to the outline the actual writing would be boring.
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
Never apologize for your cooking.
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