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Antique Olive

On Novelty.

Let me hear no more of that absurd maxim: "We need the new, we need to follow our century, everything is changed." Sophistry--all of that! Does nature change, do the light and air change, have the passions of the human heart changed since the time of Homer? "We must follow our century": but suppose my century is wrong. Because my neighbor does evil, am I therefore obliged to do it also? Because virtue, as also beauty, can be misunderstood by you, have I in turn got to misunderstand it? Shall I be compelled to imitate you!
-Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres