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Originality is certainly and eagerly to be welcomed, but when it means sacrificing everything worthwhile, when its revolution is aggressive only in order to surprise by its ugliness or shock by its coarseness, when it becomes meaningless to the audience and insulting as a so-called artistic production, it ought to be firmly rejected.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 2 : Creativity, Genius > # 17