Wilde, verified
"The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks."
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Every quote →"A Truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true."
"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."