For that beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
Source:Art and the Handicraftsman (1882); in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (ed. Wyman-Fogg Co., 1921), Volume 10, Page 293-294
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