The Preface
Famous closing aphorism: 'All art is quite useless.'
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From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Added to the 1891 edition in response to critics, the Preface is Wilde's compressed aesthetic credo and one of the most quoted statements of art-for-art's-sake.
The Preface
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.Read in Books4Free →
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