“ When the love of beauty stirs in the breast of an artist who could paint anything, the model for the elegance in which he will be able to find a fittingly lovely subject will be furnished him by people somewhat richer than he is, in whose surroundings he will find what is generally missing from the studio of an unknown man of genius who sells his pictures for fifty francs ”
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation
Author | Marcel Proust |
---|---|
Source | Finding Time Again |
Topic | beauty genius |
Date | 1927 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Ian Patterson |
Weblink |