Monstruos

«Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art...
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art...
To me, beauty is the wonder of wonders...
I admit that I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good...
I can sympathise with everything except suffering...
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...
[Art] would be to him the visible emblem of conscience...
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures...»
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«The sky was like a monstrous peacock’s tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes»

Oscar Wilde, 1891
The Picture of Dorian Gray