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Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, and Piero della Francesca had unquestioned genius in art. But they belong to the old school, and modern youth craves the new, the different. The craving is legitimate but the acceptance of crazy nonsense merely because it is new, of untalented ugliness merely because it is different, must be rejected.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 271