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Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting,...more

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Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progre

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What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the op...more

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This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully stu...more

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For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.