Thursday, December 30, 2010

sophistication requires receptivity

Picasso, Étude les femmes d'Alger, after Delacroix, Musée Picasso, 1955
"It must not be thought that just because I rejected a thing once, I must ignore it when it shows itself today. A book in which I had never found anything worthwhile may have a moral, read with the eyes of a more mature experience."
- Eugène Delacroix, journal entry 6 October 1822