Quotes About Concealment

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

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

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars! Let us hide ourselves in our palace, Herodias. I begin to be afraid.

Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

Define us as a sex. LORD ILLINGWORTH Sphinxes without secrets.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.      The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

The Icelanders are the most intelligent race on earth, because they discovered America and never told anyone.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like everyone else.

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

A coisa mais banal se torna deliciosa se a escondermos

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.