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We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.

— Eugène Delacroix Delacroix' 'Journal (1847)

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For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.

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The so-called conscientiousness of the great majority of painters is nothing but perfection laboriously applied to the art of being boring.

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Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

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Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

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Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

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