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Oscar Wilde [1854-1900] Irish Poet (with poems)
Quote rank: 807

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

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Beauty

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