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Pamela Colman Smith’s Eyes Within

Art of Darkness

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Ugliness Is Beauty, but With a Difference

The illustrations that i see in the magazines by the younger people are all dignified and well carefully and conscientiously drawn. But their appalling clumsiness is quite beyond me. Their lack of charm and grace, i do not mean by charm prettiness, but in appreciation of beauty. Ugliness is beauty, but with a difference, a nobleness that speaks through all the hard crust of convention. I have heard it said that half the world has nothing to say. Perhaps the other half has, but is afraid to banish fear. Brace your courage. Place your ideal high up with the sun, away from the dirt and squalor and ugliness around you

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