Narrator (The Picture of Dorian Gray) Quotes

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.”

All art is at once surface and symbol.

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.”

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”