Of which beauty will you speak?
There are many:tumblr_lexdal1aw31qcl8ymo1_500
there are a thousand:
there is one for every look,
for every spirit,
adapted to each taste,
to every constitution.
What makes sovereign ugliness
is our conventions.

Give me some mud and I will
paint the skin of Venus,
provided you allow me to
surround it as I will.

 

From the words of Eugene Delacroix
Linda Frye Burnham 2014

"Leaves After Delacroix," woodland banner by Steven Durland

“Leaves After Delacroix,” woodland banner by Steven Durland

Eugene Delacroix, "The Lion Hunt" (1854)

Eugene Delacroix, “The Lion Hunt” (1854)