...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
Alphonse de LamartineIt is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
Alphonse de LamartineExquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
Alphonse de Lamartine