We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Some day I will show the world what it is; and for that reason the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray." "I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Tell me, is Dorian Gray very fond of you ?" The painter considered for a few moments.