Saturday, 23 June 2012

The beauty of writing.

I have recently started reading the book The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde - as I figured I needed to catch up with some canon texts I never got around to reading over the years.
Now, this isn't a review at all. I just wanted to tell you about something that really stood out to me. There was this one quote that put everything I'd ever written into perspective and made it seem amateurish. I felt like it even explained to me what I was perhaps doing wrong with my writing.
And today, I am going to share it with you. Perhaps you may even know what it is.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age where men treat art as if it were meant to be some form of auto-biography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.