“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Intentions (1891)
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Wilde, Oscar. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
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