If it is art, it will offend before it is revered.
There are calls for its destruction and then the bidding begins."
-E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley
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“I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected a coxcomb to ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.”
-John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera, 1877
(About James McNeill Whistler’s painting: Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum)
Whistler sued Ruskin for libel about this went to trial in 1878
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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”-(William Morris, in 1880)… My father adhered to this, see film below…In The Making - Glass-Blowing - George Elliott - YouTube
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