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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2003/07

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:03:27 -0400

"Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot

teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can

understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music=E2=80
=94his own. To the
great painter, there is only one manner of painting=E2=80=94that which he h
imself
employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can apprecia
te all
forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal."

-Oscar Wilde (1854=E2=80=931900) Anglo-Irish playwright, author
"The Critic as Artist," pt. 2, published in Intentions (1891)