Autumn is a melancholy and graceful andante, that prepares beautifully solemn adagio of winter - George Sand

… reason told me that wherever we are thrown on earth, no matter how false our position, no matter how debased those beings who surround us, our duty is to work to combat evil and allow good to triumph.

But it’s different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.