Basil Hallward

The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

"Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then, my dear Basil."
"Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry."

"Are you serious?"
"Quite serious, Basil. I should be miserable if I thought I should ever be more serious than I am at the present moment."

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.