Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'?tre pas vraisemblable.
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The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
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Héraclius (1646), prefacePierre Corneille
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On doit des egards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la verite.
Voltaire
O? est l’homme de bien qui ne doit rien ? son pays ? Quel qu’il soit, il lui doit ce qu’il y a de plus précieux pour l’homme, la mortalité de ses actions et l’amour de la vertu.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il y a plaisir d'avoir quelqu'un qui sache répondre, ? qui on puisse dire de temps en temps, que c'est un belle chose.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Balzac
..But it doesn’t frighten me, because I studied in France, thank God, and I know of no artist in history who was not ‘literary’ when it came down to it. Not a single one. And even if they don’t appear to be, I know of none and you at least don’t recall them, because there is nothing to recall.. ..Sometime or other I’d like to see a << pure >> artist, but I didn’t even find one in France. Obviously the trouble is that one approaches painting from the other side, so that the word << sujet >> conceals the point of the thing. Yet even the most beautiful and << emptiest >> sujet (an apple, a grape or any << non-figurative painting >>) doesn’t help if there are no foundations, either innate or acquired through hard work.. ..Why don’t we say clearly: << That is freedom, and this is commitment to the subject >> and << to each tree its berries >>, but let it be a tree and not a donkey..
Marc Chagall
Le vrai peut quelquefois n'?tre pas vraisemblable.
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux
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