Wilde, verified
"A Truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true."
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Every quote →"Not that I agree with everything that I have said in this essay."
"We look to the archæologist for the materials, to the artist for the method."
"Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope."
"Costumes, of course, they are to the designer; but dresses they should be to those that wear them."
"Besides until an actor is at home in his dress, he is not at home in his part."
"The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks."