Ideas from 'Preface to 'Dorian Gray'' by Oscar Wilde [1891], by Theme Structure

[found in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Wilde,Oscar [Penguin 1949,-]].

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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art
All art is quite useless
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral
Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist