William Dean Howells quote: By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one...

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.

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William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1958). “Howells and James: a double billing. Novel-writing and novel-reading; an impersonal explanation”

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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. - William Dean Howells

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