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Art that’s too obvious, that we ‘know too quickly,” that is “too intelligible,’ Wilde wrote, is doomed to fail. ‘The one thing not worth looking at is the obvious.’
Wilde also wrote that ‘the vague is always repellant.’
I was blinded by the rules I made.
‘It’s with the best intentions,’ Wilde wrote, ‘that the worst work is done.’
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— Nov 10, 2023 06:36PM
Art that’s too obvious, that we ‘know too quickly,” that is “too intelligible,’ Wilde wrote, is doomed to fail. ‘The one thing not worth looking at is the obvious.’
Wilde also wrote that ‘the vague is always repellant.’
I was blinded by the rules I made.
‘It’s with the best intentions,’ Wilde wrote, ‘that the worst work is done.’
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