THE SUPREME ART
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist’s life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is the reason why music is the most perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 292, 1 March 1928, Page 14
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90THE SUPREME ART Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 292, 1 March 1928, Page 14
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