“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.”

“I always liked strange characters.”

“It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.”

“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.”

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“Alexander's career was piracy pure and simple, nothing but an orgy of power and plunder, made romantic by the character of the hero.”

“The extraordinary significance that music holds for Delacroix, and which contributes most to his admiration for Chopin, is a symptom of the new hierarchy of the arts and the prominent position which music occupies in it. It is the romantic art par excellence and Chopin the most romantic of all the romantics. In his relation to Chopin, Delacroix’s intimate connection with romanticism is brought most clearly to light.”

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”