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. 
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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
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