A Picture

This one is of Dorian Gray.

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

“Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

“But then in the Church they don’t think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.”

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.”

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