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No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
— Egon Schiele
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You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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