No monster exists that cannot be made pleasing through art
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“no monster exists that cannot be made pleasing through art” is a dictum by Boileau.
- Il n'est point de serpent ni de monstre odieux,
- Qui par l'art imité ne puisse plaire aux yeux,
- --L'Art poétique (1674)
- There is no monster bred beneath the sky,
- But, well-disposed by art, may please the eye
- --tr. via Albert Stanburrough Cook
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