All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect development. It must be merged in instinct before we become fine.
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art I altered the minds of men and the colour of things there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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