No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Decay of Lying." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Decay of Lying." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.