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Excerpt from The World and the Artist
Morals can be excluded from Art only by the school which maintains that Art is nothing but competent Expression, and that, since what I call ugly can be as competently expressed as what I call beautiful, Art can make no distinction the portrait of a man suffering from con?uent smallpox might thus be a masterpiece; but if theorists assert that all these things are equally beautiful because equally capable of competent expression, and that such expression makes all things equally beautiful to this I reply.
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