Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Delacroix................................


Eugene Delacroix   La Liberté guidant le peuple   1830   Oil










 

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

-Eugène Delacroix 

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