The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.


The Writings of Oscar Wilde: His life, with a critical estimate of his writings (ed. 1907)

Oscar Wilde Quotes

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. ...

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. ...

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. ...

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. ...