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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”