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.


Howells and James: a double billing. Novel-writing and novel-reading; an impersonal explanation (ed. 1958)

William Dean Howells Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...