Re: [Leica] Re: Salgado Revisted

["Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net>]

"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim...The highest, as the lowest, form
of criticism is a mode of autobiography...The moral life of man forms part of the
subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of
an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything...No artist has ethical
sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of
style...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."
- - Oscar Wilde, 1891
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