Basil Hallward confesses to Lord Henry Wotton the profound and terrifying influence Dorian Gray has over his art and soul, explaining why he refuses to exhibit the portrait.
BASIL: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afrai
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