A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty ade…

Margaret Fuller
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A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed. ✨ Margaret Fuller (1860). At Home and Abroad, Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe, p.199
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