Poppies in a Garden
Spring is Coming
Spring is Coming (Steve Bucknell Edit)
Daffodils at Lacock Abbey
Daffodils at Lacock Abbey
Grape Hyacinth (Helios-44)
Chiefly Red
Bluebells with a Canon EF 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 Lens
At the Edge
Flags
Rock Rose
Red Valerian
Hydrangea in June
Melox The Food of the Dogs
Blonde in a Garden
Time for T ...
Going to a Dance
Aspirational
Spray
Daisies in August
Watering Sunflowers
Petunia by Tomioka
Hanging On
Soft at f/1.4
Yellow Throng
Hospital Daffodils
Summertime
Poppies on a Roadside Verge
Poppies by the Wall, 2020
Bindweed Fence
Springtime
Good Morning!
Alone
Poppies on a Roadside Verge
Bee Foraging on a Roadside Verge
On the Verge
Running Wild
Jasmine in June
Yellow Roadside Flowers
Insects of Semington
The Garden According to Chinon
June
Lighting Up
Summertime
Daisy
California Poppies (2)
Working in the Yard
Sculpture by Ruth Moilliet
The Tea Room is Closed
Poppies in a Rowde Wall
Wildflowers
Garden, Avebury Manor
Animated and Still
Window Box
Tokina Blues
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (1)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (6)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (5)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (3)
Chinon 55mm f/1.4: (2)
Soldiers
A Multitude
A Day in the Life
Nikkor 180mm AF ED f-2.8 Lens
Sign In
Out-of-Focus
Soligor Daffodils
Spring Flowers at Lacock Abbey
Pursuing the Pink
Cranesbill
Six Daisies
California Poppies
Blue Leaves
Blue
Stourhead Garden (AF Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D)
Stourhead Garden
Things You Can Do With A Kodak Instamatic
Yellowness
Depth of Field
The Oudolf Field
Soligor C/D Wide-Auto f/2.8 28mm Lens
Red!
Photographed at Lacock Abbey, 20th April 2016
Lacock Abbey Botanical Garden
Depth-of-Field
Puzzling
Low Level
Trug etc
Potting - Botanic
Yellow Flowers at Lacock Abbey
A Riot of Yellowness
Lacock Abbey Courtyard
Lacock Abbey Garden
Lacock Abbey Garden
Lacock Abbey Garden
Poulshot St Peter's Church
Spring
Girls Going to a Dance
The Snapper Snapp'd
Fire
Throng
Daisies on the Canal Bank
Poppies in the Hilperton Gap
Daisies
Love-in-a-Mist
Purple Haze
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A Work of Art is Useless as a Flower is Useless
16, TITE STREET,
CHELSEA. S.W.
My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde
CHELSEA. S.W.
My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde
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