"Just as Those Who do not love Plato more than Truth can not pass beyond the threshold of the Academe, so Those who do not love Beauty more than Truth never know the inmost shrine of Art." Oscar Wilde (The Decay of Lying, 1889)
Translation: Just as those who do not hold more than Plato could never get over the threshold of the Academy of Truth so they can not hold more than of Beauty euroviisut 2011 of Truth never know the inmost sanctuary of art.
In his essay The Decay of Lying writes a plea for more untruths in art. Wilde If books and paintings reality only imitate euroviisut 2011 art becomes unbearably euroviisut 2011 dull and loses its plausibility. Stories that are true are unlikely. A good artist can therefore not only better keep too much of the Truth. He must put Beauty in the first place. The purpose of art is to lie, to speak about beautiful and untrue things. Wilde compares this to humorously with the status quo at the times of Plato: as a young student, you had to keep more of the old Plato himself than of the truth, or you did not come in his academy.
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