The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at. . . (H. L. Mencken)

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at. . .

H. L. Mencken

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