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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">20—God God had opened my eyes; for I saw the nobility of the vulgar, the attractiveness of the repellent, the perfection of the maimed and the beauty of the hideous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-20#p1</ref></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">technique is a means of expression; one does not write merely to use beautiful words or paint for the sole sake of line and colour; there is something that one is trying through these means to express or to discover. What is that something? The first answer would be—it is the creation, it is the discovery of Beauty… But there is not only physical beauty in the world—there is moral, intellectual, spiritual beauty also… But here again, what after all is Beauty? How much is it in the thing itself and how much in the consciousness that perceives it? Is not the eye of the artist constantly catching some element of aesthetic value in the plain, the ugly, the sordid, the repellent and triumphantly conveying it through his material,—through the word, through line and colour, through the sculptured shape? <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/art-for-arts-sake#p2</ref></span>
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