Michael

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray