The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
[...] Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. 
[...] There is no such thing as a moral or an inmoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is All. 
[...] No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
[...] Vice and virtue are to  the artist materials for an art. 
[...] Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. 
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. 
[...] All art is quite useless.


   -The Preface of The Picture of Dorian Grey

                                           Oscar Wilde.