Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
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.