Degeneration/art

Famous quotes containing the words degeneration and/or art:

“Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)