The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Archived from the original on 5 December It used to remind me of those curious lines in some play—"Hamlet," I think—how do they run? Instead the picture is the ugliest it has ever been. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.
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