Famous Quotes | If they have not opened the eyes...

If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and while their leaders may have all the inexperience of old age, their young men are far too wise to be ever sensible. - Oscar Wilde
Attribution: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2, published in Intentions (1891). Speaking of the Impressionists. “Yet,” he added, “they will insist on treating painting as if it were a mode of autobiography invented for the use of the illiterate.”

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