[This is one of my favorite paintings—assuming one can call it a favorite without ever having seen the actual artwork. It is presently in the collection of Rosalinda Orosa.]
"The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the middle of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite." —Charles Baudelaire