“As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.” ArtArtistMoralProducePaintingSafeImpression Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.” IfsMenWorldFeelsMayBookJoyArtistImaginationMemoriesCreativeHe ManProudConsciousLettersProfoundImpressionDivinityInsignificantPossessing Author:Edmond de Goncourt