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I was thinking that the artists who have a sufficiently vigorous style are the ones to be most excused from exact imitation.

— Eugène Delacroix, I, 209 – Friday, January 25, 1850

Sources

I – The Journal of Eugène Delacroix
Translated from the French by Walter Pach, Crown Publishers, New York, 1948

II – The Journal of Eugène Delacroix
Translated by Lucy Norton and Hubert Wellington, 3rd Revised edition 1995, Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714833590

III – Vincent van Gogh – Brieven aan zijn broeder
a Eerste Deel, b Tweede Deel, c Derde Deel
Uitgegeven en toegelicht door zijn schoonzuster J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam 1914

(Vincent van Gogh, Letters to his brother, published and introduced by his sister-in-law, Amsterdam, 1914)