“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.”
Source: Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
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