Nous ne possédons réellement rien; tout nous traverse. - Eugène Delacroix

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.

In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?

Pourquoi ne pas profiter des contrepoisons de la civilisation, les bons livres.