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 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 342 pages
...age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. — I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, OSCAB, WILDE. 16 Tin STHBKT, June 30. VI ME. WILDE'S REJOINDEK... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Vellum printed books - 1908 - 374 pages
...age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. — I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, OSCAR WILDE. 16 TITE STREET, June 30. VI MR. WILDE'S REJOINDER... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 352 pages
...age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. — I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, OSCAB WILDE. 18 Tin STBUT, June 30. TI MB. WILDE'S REJOINDEB... | |
 | James Thomas Harris - 1916 - 350 pages
...of his growth in selfassurance: he no longer dreads the imputation of viciousness; he challenges it: "It is poisonous, if you like; but you cannot deny...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at." When Oscar republished "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in book form in April, 1891, he sent me a large... | |
 | Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - Humor - 1959 - 276 pages
...Critic. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain reason. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. Reply to a Critic. * . . . each of the arts has a critic, as it were, assigned to it. The actor is... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 475 pages
...age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. I remain, sir, your obedient servant OSCAR WILDE TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SCOTS OBSERVER" 9 July 1890... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Fiction - 1992 - 230 pages
...Lippincott's version of Dorian Gray 'poisonous', Wilde replied: 'My story is an essay on decorative art ... It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...also perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at.'30 Style and Paradox in Dorian Gray Something has been said to illustrate Wilde's sincerely held... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Fiction - 1998 - 292 pages
...age. My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. Less than a week later, on July 5, there appeared in the Scots Observer a short but incisive review... | |
 | Bernard Brugière, André Topia - Art - 2000 - 374 pages
...on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It É poisonousifyoulike, but you cannot deny that it is also perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. (Ellmann 303 j La question de la nature de l'œuvre est centrale dans The Picture of Dorian Gray pour... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Epigrams, English - 2007 - 244 pages
...book. %' My story is an essay on decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain reason. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that...perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at. '«' Each of the arts has a critic, as it were, assigned to it. The actor is the critic of the drama.... | |
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