Past and Present

" You must avail yourself of the means which you are familiar to the time in which you live. That technique from another era that you employ to speak to men of your time will always be an artificial one, and the people who come after you, comparing this borrowed manner with the works of the era in which that manner was the only one known and understood, and therefor executed in a superior way, will condemn you to inferiority."

Eugene Delacroix 1857