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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 .
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