Letters on Dorian Gray: Quotes

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• "Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."

  Mr. Oscar Wilde Again

• "The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle."

  Mr. Oscar Wilde Again

• "You say that a work of art is a form of action. It is not. It is the highest mode of thought."

  To the St. James’s Gazette

• "Each man sees his own sin in Dorian Gray. What Dorian Gray's sins are no one knows. He who finds them has brought them."

  Mr. Wilde’s Rejoinder

• "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

  To the Scots Observer