“Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.”
13 January 1857 (p. 338)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
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Gottlieb's comment on the attacks on artistic freedom in the United States, 1948
Quote from Gottlieb's lecture at Forum: the Artist Speaks, museum of Modern Art, New York, May 5, 1948.
1940s

Quote, 1914, in 'Functions of Painting by Fernand Leger'; p. 14
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1910's, Contemporary Achievements in Painting, 1914
Source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005), Ch. 18 : Rousseau the Controversialist: Émile and The Social Contract.

2001

“No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.”
Los Angeles Magazine Vol. 44, No. 11 (November 1999), p. 96 http://www.edward-norton.org/fc/articles/boxinghelena.html

“Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”
"The Rise of James Fenton," http://www.danagioia.net/essays/efenton.htm published in The Dark Horse (Autumn 1999 and Summer 2000)
Essays

as quoted in: 'Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism', Corrinne Chong, PhD -independent scholar http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn17/chong-reviews-frederic-bazille-and-the-birth-of-impressionism
Quotes, undated

F. Cajori's Teaching and History of Mathematics in the U. S. (Washington, 1890), p. 265; Cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/198/mode/2up, (1914) p. 171; Persons and anecdotes.