How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
After pushing forward some contemporary masters in the early portions of their career, the picture-dealer, a man of progressive ideas, had tried, while clinging to his artistic ways, to extend his pecuniary profits. His object was to emancipate the fine arts, to get the sublime at a cheap rate. (1.4.150)
Though Monsieur Arnoux cared about art early in his career, he later turns his commitment toward profit. And you know what that means: his eyes turn green and it becomes all about the money. Which he promptly loses all of.
Quote #5
With his mania for pandering to public opinion, he made clever artists swerve from their true path, corrupted the strong, exhausted the weak, and got distinction for those of mediocre talent; (1.4.150)
If this is the kind of guy Monsieur Arnoux is, that means it's also the kind of guy Madame Arnoux is married to. Hmmm, what does this tell us about the object of Frederick's affection?
Quote #6
He had been devoting himself to artistic work of a kind that he did not care to connect his name with, such as portraits for two crayons, or pasticcios from the great masters for amateurs of limited knowledge; and, as he felt humiliated by these inferior productions, he preferred to hold his tongue on the subject as a general rule. (1.4.177)
Pellerin has his own ways of making profits. His strategy? Make art that he knows is terrible but that the people want. So yeah, Arnoux isn't the only sell-out.