![]() ![]() He realised in the entire sphere of human relations that imaginative sympathy which in the sphere of Art is the sole secret of creation. ![]() "Nor is it merely that we can discern in Christ that close union of personality with perfection which forms the real distinction between the classical and romantic movement in life, but the very basis of his nature was the same as that of the nature of the artist-an intense and flamelike imagination. "I see a far more intimate and immediate connection between the true life of Christ and the true life of the artist" (93). But Marius is little more than a spectator: an ideal spectator indeed.yet a spectator merely" (93). "In Marius the Epicurean Pater seeks to reconcile the artistic life with the life of religion, in the deep, sweet, and austere sense of the word. "Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol" (93). Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit" (89). "Truth in art is not any correspondence between the essential idea and the accidental existence it is not the resemblance of shape to shadow, or of the form mirrored in the crystal to the form itself it is no echo coming from a hollow hill, any more than it is a silver well of water in the valley that shows the moon to the moon and Narcissus to Narcissus. : Oscar Wilde Quotes : Brief selections from the master of wit ![]()
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