"Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.” Our trembling little human lives and emo

He grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.