illumination quotes

Painters who arenotcolourists produce illumination and not painting.

- (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne Delacroix
  The Journal of Euge'  ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948).

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

- Andrew Lang
  Speech. Quoted in  Alan L Mackay  The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).