Quote of the Day

"Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." – Oscar Wilde, writing in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, which I have just started reading. It's really rather wonderful thus far.