“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” WorldArtOpinionPaintingRidiculousMuseumsBritish Museum Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.” ThinkingWorldDreamWomenResultsFemale 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
“Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.” WorldYearsArtPhilosophyDiesHistoryFiveFourNeededCivilizationHundredBarbarism Author:Edmond de Goncourt
