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William Dean Howells Quotes about Art

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By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

William Dean Howells
Art, Mean, Ugly
William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1958). “Howells and James: a double billing. Novel-writing and novel-reading; an impersonal explanation”

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

William Dean Howells
Art, Singing, Nests
William Dean Howells (2015). “The Complete Works of William Dean Howells: 27 Novels & 40+ Short Stories, Including Plays, Poems, Travel Sketches, Historical Works & Autobiography (Illustrated): Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, The Flight of Pony Baker, Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Imaginary Interviews, A Boy's Town, Years of My Youth…”, p.6819, e-artnow

Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

William Dean Howells
Art, Apples, Tree
William Dean Howells (2017). “Poems”, p.89, The Floating Press

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