Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) French painter
13 January 1857 (p. 338)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“The vulgarity of the myth of modernity is plainly revealed by the preeminence in its mythology of the factors of quantity; to be modern is always to beat the record in some respect. Distinction, therefore, is opposed to modernity as quality is to quantity.”
section 15
The Myth of Modernity (1946)
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