“ The artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian always. ”
Oscar Wilde, Intentions (1891). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
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| Source | Intentions |
| Topic | critics |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/887/887-h/887-h.htm |
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“Anything approaching to the free play of the mind is practically unknown amongst us. People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.
Ernest. Ah! what an antinomian you are!
Gilbert. The artistic critic, like the mystic, is an antinomian always. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”
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