Publisher's Synopsis
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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