The Preface Of Dorian Gray

mu

The Preface

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. 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.

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. 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. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type. 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. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

舞者

标一下，Oscar Wilde. 前天晚上又看他的“Ideal Husband"--"Loving oneself is the start of a life-long romance"--爱他玩世的诙谐，诙谐中的智慧，人生的荒谬在他的诙谐中bearable.

mu

Ideal Husband……理想丈夫……
这部剧很诙谐

jiannan

although The Preface Of Dorian Gray is very very short, but, there are some sentences which i can't totle understand.
such as "
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. "

"When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself"

and i like this sentences


"Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."

奥利维埃

我看的第一个王尔德作品就是理想的丈夫还是看的电影版

小香可

原帖由 jiannan 于 2006-5-24 23:57 发表
although The Preface Of Dorian Gray is very very short, but, there are some sentences which i can't totle understand.
such as "
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Calib ...

我的理解是揭示和回避现实丑怪、荒诞的作品同样都使人郁闷、惊惶。

雪月

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

很喜欢

PhoenixChee

还没看过电影的  现在找去看一下

应该就是这部吧
Description Dorian Gray (2009): A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all. more A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.

Sophia

关于这部电影，坛里已有定评……