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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Harper Row 1984

"Though touched by the songs, Sabrina did not take her feeling seriously. She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie that it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition." 5-2-84

same as above- "We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power."

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Daily Life of French Artists by Jacques Letháeve - 1968

Even the greatest painters sometimes went so far as to model details on pictures in museums. Louis de Planet, who collaborated with Delacroix in his great decorative paintings, confides in his notes: "Use Giorgione's Pastoral Symphony for the clouds, copy them exactly; and for the trees study how the trees in Giorgione's picture stand out sharply against the clouds and less sharply against the blue of the sky. Also use Salvaor Rosa's Battle for the blue of the sky, just the right tone for my picture ... use also the old tree in Swanewelt's landscape ..."

p 66

Delacroix ... studied his collection (prints of other artist's paintings) in the morning, spending most time on Rubens and copying details. Charles Blanc used to say of him that he 'took Rubens like other people took coffee' p 69