Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

A Dandy does nothing.

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

Nothing can be done except little by little.