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The beautiful is always bizarre.

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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

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The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity—that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and aston...more

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I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, W...more

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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the da...more

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.