I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.
“But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.”
“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”