Outrageous?

1)Caliban: A character from Shakespeare's The Tempest, an ugly creature.

2)Realism: A movement in art that stress on depicting the reality or what eye can see.

3)Romanticism: Suffice to say that it elevates the sublimity of untamed brain as opposed to the higher values and higher goals in life. believed to have resulted from French and industrial revolutions.(for detailed understanding go to wikipedia or oldtextbook)


The artist is the creator of beautiful things.To reveal art and conceal the artist is the 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 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 a 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 desired to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in a n artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid.The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist materials for an art. 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 own 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.

Oscar wilde

I wish I said this!