pilferingapples:

I don’t really know much about Delacroix– every anecdote I’ve heard about him is friendly, but it’s harder generally to find writing from artists than from authors, for obvious reasons–btu atm I’m fond of him because of his visits to Gerard in the asylum, his habit of making sketches that actually look like the disaster scribbles normal human artists make instead of the elegant Basically Finished Masterpieces SOME famous artists called their sketches and studies, and because he drew this:

a portrait of himself as a cat in 1831