“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

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American children's writer 1961

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Context: A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”

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