"L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la vérité idéale."
— George Sand

January 1, 1970

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — La Mare au Diable, ch. 1 (1851); Frank Hunter Potter (trans.) The Haunted Pool (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895) p. 15