“To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.”

2 April 1891.
Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940

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Édouard Vuillard4

French painter 1868–1940

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