It was pretty going, all afternoon, with scenes like pictures by rousseau and Daubigny, and twice, in the shadows of bamboo groves I saw veritable Monticelli's, when we met people and ox carts labouring through the sand; when forms and colours were all soft and blended, and the glow of day changed to night-Art is consoling when the bag is empty, even the purse sometimes!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
George Sand is impassioned, turbulent, revolutionary, the spiritual daughter of rousseau, with an enthusiastic faith in man's future destiny.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
In fact, as accepted by rousseau and by some of his English followers, it could ally itself with the ardent revolutionary enthusiasm which was to be the marked peculiarity of the latter part of the century.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen