The Arcades Project - Operi

ancient grandeur of painting to its present condition is quite perceptible in the
artworks and writings of Eugene Delacroix. This modern, full of ideas is tortured
with restlessness and a sense of impotence; at each instant he encounters the limits
of his resources in his efforts to equal the masters of the past. Nothing could better
illustrate the diminution of that indefinable force and fullness of earlier days than
the spectacle of that very noble artist, divided against himself, embarking nervously
on a last struggle to attain the grand style in art." Paul Valery, Pieces sur
l'art (Paris), pp. 191-192 ("Antonr de Corot"). I" [S6,1]
"I.The victories of art seem bought by the loss of character." Karl Marx, "'Die
Revolutionen von 1848 und das Proletariat," speech to mark the fourth anniversary
of the foundation of the Peoples Paper; published in The Peoples
Paper, April 19, 1856. [In Karl Marx als Denker, Mensch und Revolutioniir, ed.
D. Rjazanov (Vienna, Berlin