What artists call intelligence seems pure pretension to the fashionable world, which, incapable of adopting the sole perspective from which artists judge things, and failing to understand the particular attraction which leads them to choose an expression or to draw a parallel, feels their company to be over-demanding and irritating to the point of rapidly developing antipathy.
 Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way (1920). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source The Guermantes Way
Topic perspective attraction
Date 1920
Language English
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Note Translated by Mark Treharne
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