“L'arte non deve mai tentare di farsi popolare. Il pubblico deve cercare di diventare artistico.”

—  Oscar Wilde

Originale

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contesto: Art is this intense form of individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible. It is not quite their fault. The public have 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.

Ultimo aggiornamento 20 Aprile 2020. Storia
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poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese 1854–1900

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