Un artiste n'est un artiste que grace a son sens exquis du beau, - sens qui lui procure des jouissances enivrantes, mais qui en meme temps implique, enferme un sens egalement exquis de toute difformite et de toute disproportion.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- An artist needs a refined sense of beauty that brings intoxicating pleasure, but also an equally refined sense of deformity and disproportion.
- In plain terms
- Artists appreciate both beauty and its opposite.
- What can you take from it?
- Balance appreciation of harmony and discord.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why is discord valuable to art?
- Can beauty exist without contrast?
Another view
Too much focus on deformity can alienate audiences.
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