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Quote by Clement Greenberg
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. - Clement Greenbe

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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