The portret of Dorian Gray

“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! Fot that I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that !”

The artist is the creator of beautiful things

From the point of view of form, the type of all arts is the art of the musician.

From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials of an art.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

The reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.

Books are well written or, badly written. That is all.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde