the picture of dorian gray
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown with it the
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