Sample Letters Welcome New Doctor's Practice

Preface of The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

• 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.
• The highest and the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a defect.
• Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
• are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
• A book is not in any way, moral or immoral. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
• The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his face in the mirror.
• The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in the mirror.
• moral life of man forms part of the theme for the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of half imperfect. No artist wants to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
• 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, an art materials.
• From the point of view, the model of all the arts is the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor.
• All art is at once surface and symbol.
• Those who go beneath the surface do so at your own risk.
• Those who read the symbol do so at your own risk tambiéna.
• is the spectator, and not life, art really mirrors.
• The diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as he does not admire. The only excuse for making a useless thing is one admires it intensely.
• All art is quite useless.

Preface The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde