Leonid Afremov Art
Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and
disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value.
For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of
custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level
of a machine.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like
somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody
else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did
anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up.
They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their
want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what
they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be
tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating
too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of
their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular.
The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar wilde
Oscar wilde
There is a very wide difference.
Oscar wilde
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