“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in 1890.
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter.