Marcel Proust on Art
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Marcel Proust, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Marcel Proust, entry #247149: "[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy."
Attributed to Marcel Proust, entry #212860: "A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure."
3 Quotes by Marcel Proust on Art
"[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy."
"A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure."
"I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it."