Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. (№ 249492)

Art seeks necessarily for good, positively or negatively: does us the beauty of all the best that is in man, or laughing at the mess of all the worst in man. If you put stuff like what is in man, and will put it in such a way that every member of the audience will get to her utter disgust, I ask: is it not praise all that is good? I ask: isn't praise good?