There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pur…

Gustave Flaubert
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
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