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I am not a monk; I’ll admit however that I will gladly sacrifice the pleasure to look at beautiful nudes if I could bring about sooner the moment where the most decent and moral painting and sculpture might think of competing with the other beaux-arts, in which to inspire virtue and to purify customs. It appears to me that I have seen enough nipples and buttocks; these seductive objects corrupt the soul’s emotions by the upset that they heap onto the senses.
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Diderot, D., Glaus, J.S.D. (2011). The Type. In: Glaus, J., Seznec, J. (eds) On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0062-8_8
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