“ Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. ”
 Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891). copy citation

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“Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist. Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. Crime, which, under certain conditions, may seem p. 42to have created Individualism, must take cognisance of other people and interfere with them.” source

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