“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”
— Oscar Wilde, book The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
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