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"Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He

is absolutely necessary to me."

"How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything

but your art."

"He is all my art to me now," said the painter gravely. "I

sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any

importance in the world's history. The first is the appearance of

a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new

personality for art also. What the invention of oil-painting was

to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek

sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me. It

is not merely that I paint from him, draw from him, sketch from

him. Of course, I have done all that. But he is much more to me

than a model or a sitter. I won't tell you that I am dissatisfied

with what I have done of him, or that his beauty is such that art

cannot express it. There is nothing that art cannot express, and

I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is

good work, is the best work of my life.