...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...longer dreads the imputation of viciousness; he challenges it: "It is poisonous, if you like; but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain reason. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...'poisonous', Wilde replied: 'My story is an essay on decorative art ... It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is 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...

...aphorisms are Wilde, yet forced. Mr Oscar Wilde says of his story, 'it is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also perfect, and perfection is what we artists aim at.'1 Perhaps; but 'we artists' do not always hit what we aim at, and despite his confident claim to...

...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain realism. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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...

...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...

...decorative art. It reacts against the crude brutality of plain reason. It is poisonous if you like, but you cannot deny that it is also 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....