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DRAMATISTS > playwright, novelist > Oscar Wilde
There should be...
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate --- not to the artist but to the public. . . .
Source: Art and the Handicraftsman, manuscript written 1882 in Philadelphia for a lecture (published in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde, 1991)
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.