“Beauty is a form of Truth—and Truth, for the artist, is a form of Beauty.”
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About this quote
Wilde wrote the essay to defend the novel against reviewers who had found it immoral, and used it to insist that art and morality are separate questions. Read on a page about attraction it becomes a claim that what draws us to a face is the truth of it rather than its decoration.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray