The Portrait of Dorian Gray

I really like this quote from the beggining of the book.

The artist is a creator of beautiful things
The reveal are and conceal the artist is art's aim
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beauitiful things
The highest,as the lowest,form or criticism is a mode of autobiography
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt with being charming.
This is a fault
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.
For these there is hope
They are the elect to whome beautiful things mean only beauty
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral bookBooks are well written,or badly written.That is all
The nineteenth-century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist,but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything.
Even things that are true beyond can be proved
No artist has ethical sympathies.
An ethical Sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No arist is every morbid.
The artist can exspress anything using everything
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an artVice and virtue are to the artist material for an art
From the point of view of form,the type of all the arts is the art of musician.
From the point of view of feeling,the actor's craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol
Those who go beneath the surface do so at there own peril
Those who read the symbol do so at there own perilIt is the spectator,and not the life,that are really mirrors
Diversity of opinions about a work of art shows that the work is new,complex,and vital
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admirer it.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensly.

-''Oscar Wilde''