Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Oscar WildeRead
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Interpretation
Romantic art focuses on unique individuals rather than commonplace people.
Oscar Wilde suggests that romantic art is concerned with exceptional individuals and their unique experiences, implying that those who are merely normal or typical do not provide the depth or intrigue necessary for artistic exploration. This perspective values individuality and the extraordinary, positioning good, ordinary people as less interesting in the context of artistic expression.
In practice
During a lecture on art history, one might use this quote to discuss the importance of individuality in artistic expression.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
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