DM13 – 7 November © 2006 Matt Niebuhr

Preface

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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