André Gide quote: I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so ...

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?

~ André Gide ~

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