Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.