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The Critic as Artist
Oscar Wilde(1891)
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Pages: 38
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043700-3
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Wilde's dialogue on the nature of criticism and its relationship to art.
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The highest criticism is more creative than creation, and the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not.
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The highest criticism is more creative than creation, and the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not.
It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
All art is immoral. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.