The Art of Reading Art

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the art is art's aim.

Thought and language are to the artists instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials of an art.
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.

The Rorscharch Test

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

 -Oscar Wilde, from Preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"