Quotes by Ferdinand Brunetière

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To judge works and people fairly requires greater distance in time and perspective.

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Art has its object outside and beyond itself; and if this object is not precisely moral, it is social, which otherwise is almost the same thing... Art has a social function, and its true morality is the consciousness with which it fulfills this function.

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The art that has nothing but itself as its object, the art that does not care about the quality of the characters it expresses, the art that does not take into account the impressions it is able to produce on the senses or awaken in the spirits, that art , however great the artist may be, I do not say that he is inferior, that would be another matter, but I say that he necessarily tends to immorality.