Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality.
Source:Lecture to Art Students (June 30, 1883); in Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (ed. Wyman-Fogg Co., 1921), Volume 10, Page 311
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