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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

James Joyce
Beautiful, Artist, Creation
James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.134, Courier Corporation

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

James Joyce
Civilization, May, Creation
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2059, e-artnow

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

James Joyce
Art, Invisible, Creation
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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