“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.” Oscar
Wilde