Edmond de Goncourt
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"Edmond de Goncourt", born "Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt", was a France/French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

A new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.