"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim." - Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Source note: Novel preface

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Source note: Novel preface

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All art is quite useless.

Source note: Novel preface; Wilde later elaborated in letter to Bernulf Clegg (1890)

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