Quote #33
Delacroix at ArtCyclopedia
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- They say that truth is naked. I cannot admit this for any but abstract truths; in the arts, all truths are produced by methods which show t…
- The so-called conscientiousness of the great majority of painters is nothing but perfection laboriously applied to the art of being boring.