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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.

Source: 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
-- 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.

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