O.Wilde, Preface to 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. (...)
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. (...)
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. (...)
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself...

O. Wilde (1854-1900),
Preface to 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'


Saturday, November 05, 2011

Bonfire Night !


"Remember, remember,
the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
We see no reason why
Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!"


 
Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) belonged to a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who plotted to blow up the English Parliament and King James l, on the day set for the king to open Parliament. The plan, known as the Gunpowder Plot, was prevented by his arrest on 5 November 1605.
The story is remembered each 5th November when 'Guys' 'are burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display. ("Bonfire Night")

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