Edmond And Jules De Goncourt Quotes

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. - Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

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