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Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Beauty category:
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)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Books category:
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Boredom category:
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)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Health category:
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Immortality category:
One of the proud joys of... 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. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Morality category:
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)
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt - From the Museums category:
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt)
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