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“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”
― Ligeia
― Ligeia
“There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).”
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“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
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