Maybe Delacroix stands for Romanticism. He stuffed himself with too much Shakespeare and Dante, thumbed through too much Faust. His palette is still the most beautiful in France, and I tell you no one under the sky had more charm and pathos combined than he, or more vibration of colour. We all paint in his language, as you all write in Hugo's.

p. 197 in: 'What he told me – II. The Louvre' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)