Advice to Young Artists
Published: July 28, 2026
Duration: 12:39
Listen to episode 1142 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Advice to Young Artists. Edited and adapted from an Oscar Wilde lecture to art students.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I do not desire to give you any abstract definition of beauty. For we who are working in art cannot accept any theory of beauty in exchange for beauty itself, and, rather than desiring to isolate it in a formula appealing to the intellect, we, on the contrary, seek to materialize it in a form that gives joy to the soul through the senses. We want to create art, not...