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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.-- H L Mencken, (Sep 12 1880-1956), US editor, satirist; He is known for his biting satire, insults, and debunking in The American Mercury, 1924-33.
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